While I was researching ' We Are Marshall', others were gathering near LaFrance Marshall, Sr. to mourn the victim of a drowning BUT where are the few who mourn and gather when a young child's parents get divorced and a FAMILY tree dies?
Network television isn't going to suggest you count the omer nor the Hebrew date because network television is a business. For the few who believe it is the 2nd rather than the 3rd, 5th or 9th month of the year, we might feel as anguished as Nathaniel Ruffin#25 without Daniel Withrow#26 to light up a dark year in a crowded interstate 'rest area'. Why did Red Dawson have a problem seeing 26 -29-33 in a row, when 26 was actually right of the 'copper platform' instead of left ahead of a television camera?
2/13 bootleg right is going to align with day 25 of the omer count for me, and I know winning isn't everything. Only a fool thinks that the Las Vegas Knights team 'mean everything' to Las Vegas, a city that stenches with artificial lights and anti-Yehovah activities, making Las Vegas similar to the political realm of Washington, DC.
Does it really matter that West Virginia football players labeled #42 and #24 decided to have MU on the rear of the helmet in 1971 but that today, Aaron Bummer is the new NE guard #39? Who will compare Willie PArker #39 to some other Parker labeled #53 tossing balls near 13th rounder Albert Pujols? Nate Ruffin played football when his shoulder was hurting as much as his mind was hurting, and I have worked many years while my mind was hurting, my lungs were hurting and I have heartache still because I lost almost all of my former teammates to a n intentional, not accidental, act of violence referred to as 'divorce'.
I suppose I might remember that 12 connecting with 26 defeated Xavier University at one time, but this years 2/13 connecting with omer day 25 seems much more important to those who aren't hovering around 'Jermont' and LaFrance Marshall, Sr. who appears, based on his non-Hunter name, to be another father who isn't married to the mother of his son.
We are not all Marshall. Marshall University is still a better site to explore than Walt Disney grounds if you respect the sober spirit of a real buffalo more than drunkards in Las Vegas hotels drinking 'Bud Light' . There are Marshall buildings in MIlwaukee and Marshall hotels in Savannah that are just as troubling to me as 26-29-33 was to Red Dawson.
David Fox is not actually a 'Marshall' man. Hanging a crucifix in your church, on your neck or from your rear view mirror does not prepare you to align with HVHY (Yehovah) nor does trying to replay past games of chance to attract movie-goers prepare you for Yom Kippur or the advances of Abbadon. Mr. Vrana or Mr. Cozart might understand the spirit of buffalo even if they don't understand Dorothy LaFrance's family or LaFrance Marshall, Jr.'s current placement.
Today, I will meet quietly with the family of a man who remained married to his wife for 48 years rather than destroying his family tree or his own reputation. Handling a football is extremely simple compared to properly handling pain, sorrow and loss of most of your former 'teammates' because of divorce. Calling upon Yehovah's name helps me more than saying ' I am Gad and as complicated as a jacinth.
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