Love for the Widow
On Friday, the family and I had the honor of being invited to attend a retired Soldier's funeral at a National Cemetery in Denver where as he was being laid to rest. The Thursday night before that I sat in a quite chapel room of a funeral home while the casket rested open for family and friends to pay their last respects. We did not know this soldier or his family until a couple of weeks ago. We may have missed this opportunity all together if it had not been for The Army pulling Caleb to be a Casualty Assistance Officer (CAO) for this family. A CAO is a Soldier, who is trained to walk along side a family member after receiving the news of the loss of their Soldier. To be honest we have dreaded the day Caleb would get the call for such a task, mostly for the feeling of being inadequate. We are significantly less than what any family could need in a time like that. We are not the answer to their deepest moan and we can not be enough in a moment like that, or in the weeks, months or