Charles "CP" Donly

Charles, Caryn, Diane and family - Our hearts are with you!
Your great loss of CP is grievous. As Lincoln said in his famous letter to Mrs. Bixby - the mother who lost 5 sons in battle...
"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine that would attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming...but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation of a Republic (and family & friends he served to defend)...I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." May the words of the Apostle Paul ALSO ring true on this Centenary Celebration of CP's life symmetrically honored on this coming Wednesday, July 30!
From 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Blessings, love and peace always in our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ,

Mike (& Clare) Minich