What hurts more in loss, those who you have known or those you have never known? (AFR, Navy)
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"Typical" inspirational Sunday type question, here out of watching a Laura Branigan video (that touched me right when I left the Navy, by the way) and reflecting about her, "You will be missed".
These days, now at a quarter century after I left the service and before, my focus is on my divers. New groups each semester that I train, lead to be safe divers and who are, in a way, like my police troops that I had in the Navy.
But....while there are those who remember me, even those I know through other walks of life that I taught them, given the new groups each semester, I am sorry to say that while they were mine I would bend over backwards for them, in years afterwards, I am afraid I don't recall. I am reminded on an episode of classic Battlestar Galactica, "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero", where Tigh informs Adama of the pilot lost in escort, Killigan, and Adama feels it for a moment. I think it is better, as a leader and a teacher, to feel like that.
It would help if I took group pictures of them and maybe I should start (never mind that I am of the DSLR generation which poses some difficulties).
These days, with our social media (outside the military and then again, outside of class (though my academic world is not concerned with grades)), perhaps there is some wisdom to such associations.
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