Temporal Disconnect

I had a very unusual experience lately, and I thought I would share it with you all. I was telling an Army story about a friend who dislocated his pelvis on a jump, and it took 6 months to find the problem and have his pelvis re-located (that makes it sound like his pelvis was lost). This lead to a desire to try to look him up again, as we had been fairly close. He and his wife used to invite me over for dinner and not tell me they had invited the priest, as well. We were also roommates in language school, classmates in AIT, and in the same company in the tactical battalion. Oh, and we performed together once, he singing, and me on the piano, at a formal event.

So I googled his name, which I had tried before, but this time I got a newspaper article about his death. The article was almost 3 years old. I was kind of upset, because he was one of the few guys I had tried to get in touch with. I guessed that his wife would move back to where they were from, so I did some internet magic and came up with her number. I got in touch with her, and we had a very nice chat, but it was really odd. I had only known about Josh's death for about 30 minutes, and it was raw and painful. It had been three years for her, and she had moved on and was doing fine. She had even started dating again. Here I was, expressing my condolences to someone telling me jokes, and remembering fun stuff we had done! It was heartwarming in the end, and she invited me up with my family to visit, just outside of Pittsburgh. She is REALLY interested to meet Conni, and can't believe I have kids.

Here is the article on Josh, if you are interested, or morbidly curious:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_452715.html