View a eulogy for Laura Margaret Walker, USMA '03, who passed away on August 18, 2005.
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Laura Margaret Walker
West Point, 2003
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Gordon Livingston on September 25, 2005:
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The death of a child is a fire in the mind. The mind burns with alternatives that never come to pass, with fantasies of remarkable recuperations, with dreams of adult accomplishment. If we let this fire burn compassionately within us, the grief of the mind, the fantasies, the burning of the spirit begin slowly to melt away and the child comes more into our heart. Our anguish can be used to open more fully, to enter as completely as we can into this final sharing. And then, as Rabindranath Tagore wrote in the final lines of his poem, The End, "Dear Auntie will come with presents and will ask 'Where is your baby, Sister?' and mother, you will tell her softly, 'She is in the pupils of my eyes. She is in my bones and in my soul.'" -Steven Levine |
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