Hi (again) DAVID F...

You're so right when you choose to describe our mutual friend ONTHEBEACH, as 'decent'. In fact I've learnt over time, his decency pales into insignificance when compared with his enormous capacity for compassion ! He's a really honourable individual in every way.

G'day there BANJO PATERSON...

Thank you for your link to that very evocative song of Merle HAGGARD. Indeed the lyrics do speak volumes to us all who've suffered a traumatic loss. The only trouble is, it 'kinda' drags me back to the events of March, 2014 which is best consigned to the back of one's mind. In fact it tends to make me feel quite melancholy.

It's funny BANJO, as a copper I've had to deliver similar awful news to others concerning the loss of a loved one, and generally you tend to simply 'brush it off' as you're taught in training. However when it involves yourself, it really brings things back into stark reality, at the ghastly pain a police officer (must) necessarily inflict on others, thankfully occasionally ? Life can be a bitch at times ? Thanks again.