{"id":10970,"date":"2014-05-30T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2014-05-30T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T02:10:01","slug":"friday-night-elijahs-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/05\/30\/friday-night-elijahs-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; elijah&#8217;s stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This afternoon i attended a very short, very moving ceremony at MMU to commemorate e our friend Elijah Todd Davis. Elijah died last year just two weeks after graduating from MMU. He was headed to the marines in the fall.\u00a0 Family and freinds, including\u00a0 the MMU LAX team came to pay respects and place a stone Gabe engraved near a newly planted tree. One by one, the lacrosse team players filed by the stone. and bent down to touch it. It was so touching and sad..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9706.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9713.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9710.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is Elijah&#8217;s family, our good friends the Davis&#8217;s..they are such good people.I was glad to see everyone here to support them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9715.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9716.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9721.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9718.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After the team filed b the stone they went out tot the field. Soon they did senior honors.. each team&#8217;s seniors came out on the field and were announced.. her&#8217;s gabe running out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9733.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9746.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9726.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9725.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bucky asked everyone to remove their helmets and hats and we had a minute of silence for Elijah..\u00a0\u00a0 then thy played the star spangle banner form the marine corp band.. again in honor of Ellijah who&#8217;d signed up for the marines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9755.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9754.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The teams played well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">after the game, gabe, raya and i went out to mexicali&#8217;s (my 2nd time there today)_ for a quick dinner..\u00a0\u00a0 THer eI ran into my friend steve and his wife jody.. Steve is the guy i met on an airplane that had my name (almost) tattooed on his arm with atoms..\u00a0\u00a0 He has C H O N.. the most common elements n living organisms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9759.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9762.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">i ended up making shirts out of those same atoms after steve gave me the artwork. \u00a0 I just swapped them around to\u00a0 C O H N<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-28-2013-205-AM7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ok. long day.. thats it for now. more tomorrow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon i attended a very short, very moving ceremony at MMU to commemorate e our friend Elijah Todd Davis. Elijah died last year just two weeks after graduating from MMU. 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