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View a eulogy for Phillip Isaac Neel, USMA '05, who passed away on April 8, 2007.

Phillip Isaac Neel

West Point, 2005

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Andy Fiske on April 15, 2007:

The Day I Heard My Friend Had Died


My tears lasted for a moment
and I rudely went about my day
To friends and beers and playoff hockey
I hid my sorrow deep away

But the hurt, it sunk
underneath the surface in my mind
And I wished that it would broach that
awkward, sub-terranean divide


But what do friends expect
when friends at war are gone
To await such grim realities
and then to sing their song?

And so I wrote and cried
But not enough of either for my Friend
And I need those tears to last
To last and come again

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