Dennis William Zilinski II

West Point, 2004

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Eric and Jill Wagoner on November 27, 2005:

Thank you Dennis for the ultimate sacrifice and know that your death was not in vain. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Zilinski family in hopes that they can eventually find peace. We love you Marie and we are here for you. An Irish Funeral Prayer Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Everything remains as it was. The old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no sorrow in your tone. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting, when we meet again. Eric and Jill Wagoner '04

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