Sometimes it’s more than I can take and I take time away from social media. And it’s not lack of caring, it’s just a weariness of feeling helpless. What can men do in the face of such reckless hate? But I can’t do it forever. Evil can’t be left to its own devices.

The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy is our song. Has been since after high school and we both joined different military branches. Of course he lives in the Deep South these days and I’m in the far north, so it has been kinda irrelevant for 20 years. But I always think of him when that song comes on. We were close like brothers in high school. I’ve had a couple of good friends since, but no one like him.