"What you think about is some little boy or little girl is never going to have Brendan Looney as his or her father."

Every day we get an email with a series of news clips about the Navy and other related subjects. At the end there is a section for blogs.  I read the below blog by Patrick Stevens today and thought the coaches' comments were really telling on how Brendan Looney lived.

http://d1scourse.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/brendan-looneys-former-coaches-mourn-the-loss-of-the-best-of-the-best.html#tp

The section I thought most impactful:

"I told my wife that I don't have any bravado over this; we've got to move on, have to come to work after this, and that's all going to happen," Meade said. "But I'm never getting over this. It's not about me. The reason I'm never going to get over it --- and I'll think of him every day until I die --- is it's always difficult when somebody dies like this so early in life. What you think about is some little boy or little girl is never going to have Brendan Looney as his or her father. And he would be good. He'd be a better father than me. Those are the types of things, the immediate-impact things, you think about that make it so difficult."