On Grieving

     Here is my column; http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120607-LIFE-206070333 just off the presses this morning. This one was for the grieving, which I guess is most of us. Just yesterday I was missing my dear friend Hugh Harter who passed away a few months ago. I was thinking of him as people remembered the storming of the beach on Normandy, an occasion that forever caused Hugh to live in an almost perpetual state of grief that he could not recover from. Being a hero didn't seem to change that very much. Though he enjoyed showing me his medals, they did nothing to alleviate his nightmares. Here also is a piece I wrote about Hugh, and below that a photo a reader sent me of him this morning. It was taken in the fifties with his then girlfriend, the composer Dana Suesse, who would be the inspiration for a character in one of his books many years later. I love that!

     http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110602-LIFE-106020328

      Rest in peace Hugh.

courtesy photo: Mintun

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120607-LIFE-206070333