Rest easy mi hermano

Late one evening last week, I noticed that Andre, an old Army buddy of mine, had tagged me on a Facebook post. I don’t think he’s ever tagged me, so I’d assumed he’d found a picture, or he’d been hacked. Sadly, it was neither. He posted that Bobby Garza, our former sergeant and friend, was in ICU battling COVID for his life. Bobby and I were friends on Facebook, but I didn’t realize he’d been sick. 

Just a short period of time later, less than an hour, I suppose, I picked up my phone to send him a text. I wanted to let him know that I was thinking about him and sending up prayers from “Sweet Home Alabama.” When I started to do so, I saw that Andre had tagged me once again. This time, however, the fight was over. His time on this earth was over. His duty was complete.