Our Homepage | Donation to Forum Overhead | Welocme | Merchandise | Associations | Purchase Subscription | Amazon Affiliate |
|
Our Fallen Brother Brethren. The threads in this forum are in memory of a fallen brother. Please read what has transpired the week of 9/3/06 and say a prayer for KCquer and his family. |
|
Thread Tools |
09-05-2006, 09:22 PM | #1 |
Full Fledged Farker
Join Date: 01-05-06
Location: Wichita, KS
|
The Dash
This was read at My Grandfather's funeral, by the acting VFW commander. For some reason, this, more than just about anything, has touched me the most.
THE DASH I read of a man who stood to speak, at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on this tombstone from beginning ….to the end. He noted that the first came his date of birth and spoke the following with tears. But he said what mattered most of all, was the dash in between those years. For the dash represents, all the time he spent alive on earth. And how only those who loved him know what that little line is worth. For it matters not, how much we own; the cars, the house, the cash, what matters most is how we live and love and how we spend our dash… So think about this long and hard. Are there things you’d like to change? For you never know how much time is left, that can still be rearranged. If we could just slow down enough, to consider what is true and real. And always try to understand, the way other people feel. And be less quick to anger, and show appreciation more, and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before. If we treat each other with respect, and more often wear a smile… Remembering that this special dash might only last a little while. So, when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash would you be proud of the things they say and how your spent your dash?
__________________
[FONT="Arial Black"][/FONT] Custom offset (Delilah) Bandera on the Welfare Wagon |
09-05-2006, 09:50 PM | #2 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 08-13-03
Location: Port Saint Lucie, FL
|
Thanks
|
09-05-2006, 10:11 PM | #3 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 01-04-05
Location: Pleasant Hill, MO
|
Nice Dustin. I enjoyed reading that...
__________________
KCBS Member #14287
|
09-05-2006, 10:18 PM | #4 |
Watching over us.
Join Date: 12-27-05
Location: Mid Michigan
|
Very impressive speech. Thanks Dustin.
|
09-05-2006, 10:23 PM | #5 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 08-26-04
Location: Pleasant Hill, MO
|
Thanks for sharing this....makes you think!
__________________
Stan Co-Founder and Executive Director of Operation BBQ Relief - www.operationbbqrelief.org Partner in BBQScores.com - A Competition Management System www.BBQScores.com County Line Smokers Competition BBQ Team KCBS Member - CBJ #20654 Pitmaker BBQ Vault mounted in a 12 Foot Competition Trailer 22 1/2 Weber Kettle, Stainless Steel gaser chunks of wild cherry, pecan, oak |
09-05-2006, 11:21 PM | #6 |
Grand Poobah and Site Admin
Join Date: 08-11-03
Location: Long Island, NY
Name/Nickname : Phil
|
"would you be proud of how you spent your dash"
something to think about. Thanks dustin..
__________________
Site Administrator and Grand PooBah CBJ with a Fuzzy Blue Hat, 18 Foot Competition Trailer, Customized Klose BYC, Custom Built Shirley built to feed our Veterans(A.K.A "Abrams"), 1 Double Barreled Lang 84, 1 Heavily Modified Bionic Bandera, 1 Custom Super Medium Stickburning Spicewine w/stoker, 2 XL BGE, 1 Mini BGE, 2 Pit Barrel Cookers, 3 WSMs, 3 Weber Kettles, an NB Hondo, A Modified Brinkman Horizontal, DCS 48" Grill, a Broilmaster P3, a Blackstone 36 and 17, a covered, pellet pooping FEC100, and our duck died. :( News Flash: "A mans worth is judged by the weight of his integrity " You know your getting older when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy Smoke on KC. WWW.BBQ-BRETHREN.COM |
09-06-2006, 06:43 AM | #7 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 05-04-05
Location: Coral Bay, USVI
|
Very good. Thanks
__________________
Cat Sass BBQ - Competition BBQ Team Community Development VP - Secret Squirrel Society (but we don't exist) Member: KCBS. CBJ New Braunfels Bandera - refurbished; Two Big Green Eggs; 6' fire pit; Weber Kettles; Superfast Blue Thermepan |
09-06-2006, 08:00 AM | #8 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 09-12-05
Location: Owego, NY
|
Thanks!
__________________
Charlie Beasley New Owner of old Bandera (8 years or so) New Smokette 008 (Love IT) |
09-06-2006, 09:58 AM | #9 |
Babbling Farker
Join Date: 02-10-04
Location: BFE
|
thanks for the post
__________________
I didn't hijack the thread. I just took it in a completely different direction. Spicewine, 2 Dutch Ovens, Weber OTP, 18 " Weber Kettle, White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer, Whirly Pop, Cast Iron Hot Dog cooker, and a 15 year old. Moink. RIP - my NB Bandera "Sweet Blue to all" - E |
09-06-2006, 10:40 AM | #10 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 08-13-03
Location: Arizona
|
Very good, thanks for sharing
__________________
Don't argue with an idiot: people watching may not be able to tell the difference |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Mrs Dash | Que'inKC | Q-talk | 8 | 04-15-2008 12:05 PM |
Nebraska Bash & Dash | Plowboy | Brethren Bashes | 2 | 12-23-2007 07:19 PM |
Thread Tools | |
|
|