We buried our son.

[gobs101]

On friday we buried our precious son, Chris. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. Sometimes it seems real most times it's not, right now I cant remember too much of anything. There are literly hundreds and hundreds of cards that we need to open and read. It's going to take us a while to get to open all of these. So please if you sent a card,letter or one of the packages that are here, I will let you know, it's just going to take me some time. I have found some comfort in reading all the kind words many people have written. I also want to thank everone who has called. I may or may not have spoken with you, but I really did appreciate all the warm thoughts and wishes you sent to my husband, my son and myself. Somebody kept a log of all the phone calls we recieved and hopefully oneday I will be able to return them. Again this will take sometime too. Thank you.
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/site/news.cfm?brd=2332
An article is in our paper, for some reason this changes daily so you have to put a search in under his name and it comes up.

I wanted to share this poem my son wrote for his brothers uology in chuch. It really touched me deeply.

A hero made it home today
America cried and wept
We feel the pain of grief and loss
For the family that was left

A hero walked the golden stairs
To a mansion in the sky

I wonder if he looked back to earth
And whispered America please don’t cry

I only did what I had to do
I fought to keep you free
And if you really want to
There’s something you can do for me

I know my mom is weeping
Her heart is about to break
Having to give me up
It’s almost too much to take

The favor that I’m asking
Please keep her in your prayer
It will make my leavening easier
Just knowing you’ll be there

Chris America loves you
We thank you for your work
Your one big soldier in our eyes
For the duty you never shirked

When we thank god for our freedom
It’s you who will come to mind
We will ask a special blessing
On the family you left behind

[mesue]

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[gemini26]

Gobs that is so beautiful. My heart, thoughts, and prayers are with you and your family. What wonderful sons you have raised.

[spongebob]

i am so sorry for your lost.. thank you for raising such a good son.. who wants to and did fight for are freedom and protect us from terrorist.. you raised a fine young man..hugs to you and your family.. i am very sorry..i will keep you and your family and my prayers..

the poem is great.

hugs

donna

[peaceluver]

My heart is breaking for you and your family. Sending prayers to you.

[faygokraze]

THAT IS A GREAT POEM !!!

Sorry about chris, Im sure he was a fine man and wonderful son.

[BeanieLuvR]

{{{{gobs}}}}

You and your family are in my prayers. Your son`s poem brought tears to my eyes. It is so touching. I am so sorry.

[lovee777]

I am so sorry!:(

{{{gobs101}}}

The poem is beautiful! You and your family will be in my prayers.

[Jerseygal]

My heart goes out to you and your family. I'm so sorry for your lost. You son was truly a hero in every sense of the word, he gave his life for freedom.

The poem was beautiful and touching, it bought tears to my eyes, you must be very proud of both sons.


My deepest sympathy
Jerseygal

[Angelseyes28]

I am so sorry:( My heart goes out not only to you and your family but also to his wife and sons:(

[moogle]

What a beautiful poem!!!!

My thoughts and prayers are still with you and your family.
Life doesn't get much harder than it's been for you lately.
You raised an extraordinary man - you should be very proud.

[heartlvrs]

I am very sorry for your loss and your familys lost treasure....you did honey...be proud of yourself!!! Know they are in the Fathers arms above!! God Bless you, and treasure that truly beautiful poem. We are glad to be of help and comfort to you and yours!

({{{{{GOBS AND FAMILY}}}}}}}}}}

[heartlvrs]

Dawn this is touching!! I hope you dont mind me putting it here, but I feel it shows your deep love!!
Two local tragedies share premonitions




By PETE BOSAK, THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT January 18, 2004




Dawn Golby had a chilling premonition.
Somehow, she knew her son was dead.
“Something was wrong,” she recalled. “I just didn’t know what.”
Golby returned home from work on Jan. 8 and logged onto her computer. She learned a military helicopter had crashed on a medical mission in Iraq.
“And I knew,” the 49-year-old Richland Township woman said.
Her premonition proved true: A telephone call to her daughter-in-law in Colorado verified that her son, Spc. Christopher A. Golby, 26, was among nine GIs killed when their helicopter was downed near Fallujah.
And in November 2002, state Trooper Joseph Sepp was shot and killed in the line of duty in Ebensburg – a death he seemed to have foreseen and prepared his wife and children for life without him.
Precognition, an apparent moment when someone accurately foresees the future or knows of a far-off event they could not possibly know of, has been studied extensively by scientists to no avail, said James Matlock, managing director for Rhine Research Center in Durham, N.C.
The center is an institute for the scientific study of parapsychological phenomena.
“It’s possible it is some sort of coincidence,” Matlock said. “There is no good explanation for how it happens.”
Sepp was shot and killed by a drunken gunman who led police on a miles-long pursuit, crashed his Jeep in Ebensburg and leapt out, guns blazing.
The fallen trooper seemed to have known it would happen, his wife, Jenny, said later.
“He always brought it up,” Mrs. Sepp said during an interview a few days after her husband’s death. “He would say, ‘If I get shot on the job, you have to do this, you have to do that.’ I would tell him to shut up.”
So Sepp took his fears and prepared his wife, without her knowing it, for his untimely death.
Within the year before he died, Sepp compiled a list of bank accounts, phone numbers and other important information his wife would need if the worst ever happened. Knowing how his wife did not want to even consider the possibility, he instead gave that list to his mother.
But can people sometime accurately predict future tragedy? Or is it merely a coincidence?
The reasons are psychological, not supernatural, said Mary Berge, a licensed clinical psychologist with Alternative Community Resource Program, 131 Market St. in Johnstown.
“There is no actual physical evidence ... where there has been any statistical proof the human mind can see the future,” Berge said.
The phenomenon is more to fulfill a psychological need than a supernatural vision, she said.
“It’s an emotional, psychological need to rationalize what has happened,” Berge said. “It’s looking back and trying to give yourself some sense of control over a tragic event.”
There really is no explanation, Matlock said.
“No,” he said in a telephone interview. “There certainly is a lot of anecdotal material like that. It is interesting that a lot of these premonitions are associated with warfare or violence.
“There seems to be some human faculty that allows us to know things we shouldn’t know, especially with people we are especially close to. They’re not that unusual.
“They’re just not talked about very much,” Matlock said of premonitions.
But in many cases, people who have had premonitions of tragedy later were thankful for the vision, he said. It prepared them better to hear the news.
“From our point of view, precognition is part of human nature,” Matlock said.

©Tribune Democrat 2004
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10828189&BRD=2332&PAG=461&dept_id=484742&rfi=6

[tsquared]

((((gobs))))
that was such a beautiful poem....

[Dolly<3]

(((((Gobs)))))

I hope his wife and kids and the rest of your family is getting support too.

[tiffany21]

The poem your son wrote is beautiful and touching. My heart goes out to you all.

[kimp67]

That poem is beautiful, made me cry. I think of you/your family often, so very sorry for your loss. ((((((((((((((gobs))))))))))

[ajksmom]

That is such a beautiful and touching poem that your son wrote, it made me cry. I will continue to pray for you and your family.

[brumzoo]

What a beautiful poem. I am so sorry for your loss. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. You must be very proud of your sons.

[jcw]

My heart is breaking for you.That poem is beautiful. Still praying for you and your family.

[monii222]

The poem was beautiful, and my heart goes out to you and your family.

[ttistin]

{{{Gobs}}} The poem was just Beautiful. My thoughts and prayers are still with you and your family during this hard time.

[Momof2totsand1teen]

What a beautiful poem (((Hugs))) You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers

[Kelsey1224]

Here is another article:

America will remember now-Sgt. Christopher A. Golby as a hero who died serving his country and helping others.
But his family and friends in Richland Township and other areas knew him as much more.
“Baby boy ... brother ... ski bum ... scholar ... son ... husband ... father ... photographer ... friend,” said Golby’s brother, Shane McCarty, opening his eulogy to Golby yesterday in Richland.
“Chris wore many hats,” McCarty, of Salem, N.Y., told about 100 people gathered in Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 1000 Scalp Ave.
The 26-year-old graduate of Richland High School was among nine GIs killed when their medical helicopter was downed Jan. 8 near Fallujah, Iraq.
His voice breaking, McCarty paused frequently, taking deep breaths, as he paid tribute to his younger brother. “This is a tough one,” he said, looking toward Golby’s wife, Sonya, and sons, Dylon and Sean, who have been living outside Fort Carson, Colo.
He said Golby was proud of his service to his country and his work supporting others as a medical helicopter crew chief.
“I can’t think of anything he was more proud to do than being father and a husband,” McCarty said, looking again to the late serviceman’s widow and children.
Echoing McCarty’s comments, the Rev. Ronald B. Reed, church pastor, said Golby was in Iraq trying to make it safe for others to be good husbands and raise their children.
“He died trying to help others,” Reed said, standing at Mount Calvary’s ornate altar. “He wanted to help people live better lives.”
Sunlight streaming through a stained-glass window at the altar belied the frigid weather outdoors as Reed continued, recalling Jesus’ command to love one another. Golby’s love for his fellow man was demonstrated in his humanitarian mission on the medical chopper, Reed said.
“Chris is at home now,” he said. “He is in the warm glow of the grace of God.”
Reed read a passage from the Old Testament book of Isaiah, noting it was written to the people of Israel while they were wandering in what is now part of Iraq.
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name. You are mine ... When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not overcome you,” Reed read.
The Israelites had many of the same feelings as American soldiers there today, he said: “They were probably dreaming of coming home.”
Reed said he remembered the passage and went to it when he heard of his former parishioner’s death in Iraq last week.
“I read it and the tears flowed down my face, dripping onto the pages of my Bible,” Reed said, recalling his memories of Golby as a youth.
From diving off the sides of the church camp pool to minor disruptions of religious classes, Reed said young Golby kept his adult supervisors busy.
“He was not a bad kid,” Reed said. “A bit devilish, but that’s normal.”
McCarty said his memories of Golby go back to their days of spending hours playing with toy cars and continue through football, skiing, fishing and adolescent highjinx.
“All of a sudden we were adults,” McCarty said. “We both started out on a journey we called life.”
When Golby told his brother in 1996 that he enlisted in the Army, he said he was a petroleum specialist.
“I pump gas,” McCarty remembers his brother saying. “But I am going to fly helicopters.”
Holding to that goal, Golby was able to achieve his dream, McCarty said, stressing that his dedication was a tribute to his upbringing.
“I want to tell my parents: Be proud of your son,” McCarty said. “He never settled for ‘OK.’ He wanted to be perfect. He got that passion from his parents.”
Earlier tributes were presented to Golby’s widow on behalf of the national, state, county and township governments.
Lt. Col. James Ellison, an Army chaplain from Fort Carson, Colo. – where Golby’s detachment was based – said that the fallen soldier has been posthumously promoted from specialist to sergeant.
Army officials in full dress uniforms filled the front row of Mount Calvary Church and other uniforms were scattered through the pews.
All rose when Ellison stepped forward to present four medals to Mrs. Golby: The Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Meritorious Service medal and Air Medal.
A military honor guard carried the flag-draped coffin from the sanctuary as organist Daniel Gresh played “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.”
After proceeding up Scalp Avenue, mourners at Richland Cemetery huddled in a small tent shelter against the biting wind for a brief committal service that included a 21-gun salute and “Taps.”
Many in the group were likely remembering McCarty’s closing words earlier in the morning: “I pray that Chris meets me at the gates of heaven.”


My heart just breaks for you and your family...including his wife and children. He was truly a hero.

[FrEEbiZ4Me]

that poem was very touching, God Bless you and your family at your time of need.(((((gobs))))

[MommyG3]

My heart goes out to you. I appreciate the sacrifice your son made for me and my family.