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StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
23. Me, too
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 03:03 PM
Oct 2019

i can handle the big things, but it's the smaller, simpler gestures - flags at half-staff, the boots, the gavel - that take me over the edge.

No words [View all] StarfishSaver Oct 2019 OP
... Kali Oct 2019 #1
A good man. Iliyah Oct 2019 #2
One of the very best. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #3
Now I'm gonna cry... CaptainTruth Oct 2019 #4
Also DesertRat Oct 2019 #5
Such a terrible loss MoonRiver Oct 2019 #6
Oh, that's hard to take Mersky Oct 2019 #7
knr Baltimike Oct 2019 #8
My heart is broken. Reading he had passed, took my breath away. I am in shock. MerryBlooms Oct 2019 #9
Me too. LittleGirl Oct 2019 #34
I was stunned NewJeffCT Oct 2019 #53
. lunatica Oct 2019 #10
oh my. bdamomma Oct 2019 #11
... brer cat Oct 2019 #12
. calimary Oct 2019 #13
Grief in my heart and a waterfall of tears . . . NBachers Oct 2019 #14
. StarryNite Oct 2019 #15
Taken too soon. Scarsdale Oct 2019 #16
Rest in Power, Congressman Cummings. DinahMoeHum Oct 2019 #17
Where's the conspiracy nuts proclaiming he was murdered???? AZ8theist Oct 2019 #18
We have lost a icon. gademocrat7 Oct 2019 #19
Recommended. H2O Man Oct 2019 #20
Thanks for posting. Nice to see he's being mourned. The retired gavel tears me up...like Karadeniz Oct 2019 #21
Me, too StarfishSaver Oct 2019 #23
😭 Duppers Oct 2019 #22
What I will always remember about him Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2019 #24
that's a hard image to take Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #25
Indeed StarfishSaver Oct 2019 #27
thank you for that link and OP Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #32
Oh, my heart. nolabear Oct 2019 #26
. sheshe2 Oct 2019 #28
A good American who cared Baked Potato Oct 2019 #29
We are blessed that he fought so hard for all of us. Dem2theMax Oct 2019 #30
Agreed... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #31
He knew the ethical center KT2000 Oct 2019 #33
...We've Lost... titanicdave Oct 2019 #35
What a loss.. devastating. mountain grammy Oct 2019 #36
Such a loss... democrank Oct 2019 #37
I never met the man, but I loved him. He was what we all aspire to be: a genuinely Atticus Oct 2019 #38
What a terrible loss to the nation. Deep condolences to his family. Hekate Oct 2019 #39
Agreed, no words. Initech Oct 2019 #40
This is heartbreaking, SS mcar Oct 2019 #41
😪 BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2019 #42
Such a Great Man... panfluteman Oct 2019 #43
... handmade34 Oct 2019 #44
Such a deeply ethical, strong man. klook Oct 2019 #45
This StarfishSaver Oct 2019 #46
We'll spend the next countless years repaying our debt to you, good sir Leghorn21 Oct 2019 #47
I love that photo. All of them look brilliant. nt Ilsa Oct 2019 #50
Unfathomably sad. diva77 Oct 2019 #48
He was a good man, and the world is a better place because he lived. PatrickforO Oct 2019 #49
No words. FM123 Oct 2019 #51
Heartbreaking. BeckyDem Oct 2019 #52
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