I just wanted to say that you are a very strong person to face day after day without your husband. I have just recently seen an episode with John Edwards cross country, and saw your reading. Though you may still have a lot of unanswered questions, I hope John's reading to you put some closure to your pain. You and your children are in my prayers. Take care.
Your birthday today / Gabriel Enderle (James's eternal wife ) James, today would have been your 31st birthday. Seems so strange that you would have been that old. Wasn't it just yesterday that we met at North Georgia the day after your 23rd birthday? What seems so much stranger is that you are not here to celebrate it. I always thought you would be here forever, or atleast until a very old age. Death is such a thief. I hate that it stole your life from you. I hate that it stole you from us so early. I took some balloons to your grave this morning. It felt so good to be there, even if I didn't stay very long. I took you another ceramic cross for your grave, it is so pretty there. Maybe I think it's pretty there because that's where you lie. I miss you and I miss the celebration that we would have had for your birthday. I know you didn't much like having a celebration, but you know I would have done a little something for you. Cake, presents, a special meal. This year, we have none of those. Just nothing. Nothing but memories and pain. I wish you were here, baby. Happy birthday. I love you so much always. Sleep in peace, James, and wait for me. Your loving wife forever, Gabriel
Happy Anniversary / Gabriel Enderle (eternal wife ) James, today is our 7th anniversary. With Olivia's birthday and our anniversary, I have had a hard weekend. I feel so empty and lonely without you. I am so unhappy. I miss you always. I think back on what we were doing 7 yrs ago today and remembering that we were happy and excited about our new lives together. Everyone we love the most was with us and celebrating our love with us and it was such a memorable and magical day. I wish I could have that back. I wish I could have you back. Please come back to me. I love you. Happy Anniversary. XOXO, Gabriel
what a wonderful person.... / Linda P. (A friend of a friend ) James, I never met you but thank you for what you did for this country. Gabriel, I'm sorry for your loss. The memorial site is wonderful and after reading it I feel as if I know you and James. May God bless you and your family. Linda P.
"HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY JAMES" / Johnette Moninger (Friend)
THINKING OF YOU TODAY JUST AS I DO EVERYDAY. LOVE, JOHNETTE
"HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY JAMES" / Johnette Moninger Angel-Madison Foell, Mary Bates, Toby Meister (Friend)
WITH WARMEST
THOUGHTS AND WISHES
FOR A VERY HAPPY
SAINT PATRICK'S DAY.
The garden of Love... / Lane (Gabe's youngest sister ) The garden of Love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow and joy. Love is beyond condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
~Rumi~
Missing you / Gabriel Enderle (eternal wife ) Oh, James, you would get a big kick out of the quote that I just heard read on my widow website today. Someone said that their life is like "rearranging a deck chair on the Titanic". I thought when I read it, "how poignant" because it says everything that i feel too. In just those few short words, I get the huge message and it means the world to me b/c that is how I feel too. I feel that no matter what i am doing now, I am doing to go down sinking too. I sink everyday. Your death, the loss of you, is my sinking and I will never recover from it. I don't know how there are people in this world who can lose someone they love so dear and move on. They just pick up and carry on and choose to live a new life. I can never understand that or how that is possible. It seems impossible to me b/c I love you too much. My heart can't just push aside our love and our life together. My mind can't just forget, or rather, ignore. It's true - I am rearranging my deck chair on the Titanic.
"CAST YOUR PRAYERS" / Johnette Moninger Angels-Mary B, Colt P, Toby M, Madison F, Joseph D (Friend)Read >>
"CAST YOUR PRAYERS" / Johnette Moninger Angels-Mary B, Colt P, Toby M, Madison F, Joseph D (Friend)
When you're worried about someone you care for, cast your thoughts, prayers, and wishes to their Angel. Love them from a distance, then move on knowing they are in good hands.
Your sacrifice will not be forgotten / Glenn Kaufman Read >>
Your sacrifice will not be forgotten / Glenn Kaufman
Your sacrifice will not be forgotten. God Bless to your family.
Sgt. Kaufman
82nd ABN DIV Close
IF GOD... / Johnette Moninger Angels-Toby, Joseph, Colt (Friend)Read >>
IF GOD... / Johnette Moninger Angels-Toby, Joseph, Colt (Friend)
READ THE FIRST LINE CAREFULLY. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God.
I found some poetry and while a couple of them might sound a little less than serious, I enjoyed them for the beauty of their words and the profundity of their meanings..It's not much of a tribute but I come here a few times a month, for whatever reason, and felt I should add something..
Whether one passes on or remains is all the same. That you can take no one with you is the only difference. Ah, how pleasant! Two awakenings and one sleep. This dream of a fleeing world! The roseate hues of early dawn!
Tokugawa Ieyasu7 1542-1616
Empty-handed I entered the world Barefoot I leave it. My coming, my going -- Two simple happenings That got entangled.
Kozan Ichikyo, died February 12, 1360, at 77
Tears, Idle Tears By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
RESPECT/ Tina Fulmor (passerby) Gabriel, You are such a strong woman! What an inspiration, I do not know you at all but I feel your strength through your words! Amazing ! I am so very sorry for your loss, James was a true hero! I have a son joining the Army and I know all I can do is pray for his safe return no matter where he may go! Thank you for sharing your James with all of us and for honoring his wishes. JAMES thank you for protecting our country and God Bless Your Family, they love you and miss you!Close
For Olivia / Guenevere Fanelli (Sister in Law )Read >>
For Olivia / Guenevere Fanelli (Sister in Law )
My Little Girl
My little girl is nested Within her tiny bed, With amber ringlets crested Around her dainty head. She lies so calm and stilly, She breathes so soft and low, She calls to mind a lily Half hidden in the snow.
A weary little mortal Has gone to slumberland; The pixies at the portal Have caught her by the hand. She dreams her broken dolly Will soon be mended there, That looks so melancholy Upon the rocking chair.
I kiss your wayward tresses, My drowsy little queen, I know you have caresses From floating forms unseen. O angels let me keep her To kiss away my cares, This darling little sleeper, Who has my love and prayers! Close
For Olivia / Guenevere Fanelli (Sister in Law )Read >>
For Olivia / Guenevere Fanelli (Sister in Law )
My Little Girl
My little girl is nested Within her tiny bed, With amber ringlets crested Around her dainty head. She lies so calm and stilly, She breathes so soft and low, She calls to mind a lily Half hidden in the snow.
A weary little mortal Has gone to slumberland; The pixies at the portal Have caught her by the hand. She dreams her broken dolly Will soon be mended there, That looks so melancholy Upon the rocking chair.
I kiss your wayward tresses, My drowsy little queen, I know you have caresses From floating forms unseen. O angels let me keep her To kiss away my cares, This darling little sleeper, Who has my love and prayers! Close
For Gabriel / Guenevere Fanelli (Sister in Law )Read >>
For Gabriel / Guenevere Fanelli (Sister in Law ) Love letter from an angel
I wandered through a dreary land Before our life paths met; Life's guerdons bright escaped my hand Or vanished in regret. You came and chased the clouds away, My silver star of morn, And ushered in the peerless day My dearest hope was born
If not for me the sweet love hid Within your gracious heart; If fate should frown on me and bid My new-found hope depart, Ah, do not deem all solace fled, Or think my love can die Till memory's lamp shall cease to shed My love grows still bright within the stars of nigh.Close
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