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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KoG DRIF XS" data-source="post: 798585" data-attributes="member: 78785">KoG COBRA XD was a friend, and a good guy to be around.  I will miss our friendly banter about our NFL teams (Steelers/Ravens). It was always fun, and we never argued about it. His jokes were legendary, and many times because only he thought they were funny. His outlook on life was always upbeat, and he was always looking for his next project that needed to be done. I am including a poem written by Linda Ellis in 1996, which I discovered when my younger brother had passed away in 2013. I am including it because it changed my life for the better. COBRA will always be a  KoG XD in my mind.<h3>THE DASH</h3>the poem by Linda EllisI read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning… to the end.He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.For that dash represents all the time they spent alive on earth and now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.For it matters not, how much we own, the cars… the house… the cash.What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.So think about this long and hard; are there things you’d like to change?For you never know how much time is left that still can be rearranged.To be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile… remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.So when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you lived your dash?</blockquote>

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