Brandon Meyer

Hello,
We realize that we are very late to express our deepest condolences, but we wanted to let your family and friends know that we will be sending Care Packages to deployed troops this holiday season and several of these will be dedicated to your loved one. Each package will carry the name, photo and hometown of Brandon A. Meyer US Army Private 1st Class.

We realize that this is a small tribute, but we do this with all respect and sincerity and we want you to know that it is...

Dearest Brandon,

I will never let the world forget what an amazing man you were. We are crushed with sadness. We miss you more every day. While we are more functional than in the past our grief will never be gone. As Valeda says, each day is one day closer to our reunion. I love you forever.

Mom

I just saw the Judge Pirro show about your son Brandon. I am sorry for your loss and the pain and suffering you had to endure during the burial process. We are a military family too. Offering up prayers for you and your family and thank you to your son for serving our country.

Mourning is such a lonely, terrible thing. While we need someone, the only one that we truly need is gone. That's the problem with grief. Sometimes we need to talk about it, but the only people who can wholly relate can't take anyone else's grief, theirs is already too much to carry.

And so we go on with the knowledge that it'll get better in a day or two, for a week or a month or even just an hour. I like to imagine that I am a little kid trying to assemble my building blocks into...

Broseph, I hope this reaches you. Thank you for remembering Brandon. For loving him so much. I have only had two dreams with him in them. I hear his laugh in his sisters laugh. She is so much like him. I will try to upload a video to my Facebook from when he was a kid. It's classic Brandon and will make you laugh like he always did. I can't wait to give him a huge hug. The John Murphy music is hauntingly beautiful. Music can often say what words can not. There is so much more I would like to...

Listened to John Murphy's 'Surface of the Sun' today and everytime I hear that song or see that film, I just realize that there are very few things I know to be absolutely true in this life, but I know that I will see you again. Sometimes I wish that it would happen sooner rather than later, sometimes I hope that I see you in a dream or in the face of a stranger. Sometimes I wish that I had died in your place. Other times I just don't feel much of anything except sadness. Miss you, broseph....

To the family and friends of Pfc. Brandon A. Meyer:
It has truly been my honor to sign Brandon's guest book these past few years. Unfortunately, due to complications from my Multiple Sclerosis, this may be the last message I'm able to write. Please forgive me and know that Brandon will always be remembered in my home.
With love and respect ~ Peggy

Wow, 5 years have passed, that doesn't seen possible. I think of you often and you would be so proud of your folks. They have continued to help others deal with their grief and speak the truth of our Lord. We are proud of you... They put up a beautiful Memorial for you at chruch... Beautiful!

Son,
No expanse of space or time has either the power or patience to remove the lonliness of losing you. The Psalmist has written, "Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from Him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the city gate." Psalm 127
I guess we went for quality, not quantity. You and Des continue to inspire me. I...