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[StillStelladorable]

I love the picture at Annapolis. President Carter looks exactly like his mother and Rosalynn looks so pretty.

[MoJoV]

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@StillStelladorable wrote:
I love the picture at Annapolis. President Carter looks exactly like his mother and Rosalynn looks so pretty.

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That's a lovely photo.  I remember Miss Lillian his mother.

[qualitygal]

His actions (and his wife's) speak volumns.  Wishing him and his family comfort in this hard time.  

[GoneButNotForgotten]

He's a good man.

[jubilant]

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@on the bay wrote:

I'm crying a lot.

Like so many I admired Jimmy Carter for his kindness and caring and humanitarian works all his life. He never stopped giving.

But I'm also thinking of my mother who was in hospice and died at 98 years old. She held her extended family together all her life with her unconditional love.

It just made me think of her too.

And I'm thinking we are really linked together by our humanity.

When someone is close to their next journey and dies who is in that wonderful category of great giving, we all may grieve, acknowledging what makes a wonderful human being.

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@on the bay   I'm pretty teary eyed today, too. My mother has been gone just a little over a year ago and she was such a person as this. I think she....along with others.... will be in line to greet Jimmy when he arrives with a big welcome. A celebration of a life well lived.   

[Greeneyedlady21]

I have one of his books that he signed, I went to his book signing with my Mom and that is a cherished memory. He was just as kind and humble in person as you would expect.

I can't remember which book it is, it was a long time ago so I will have to find the book.

[Mersha]

President Carter had a wonderful, impactful life.

A humble man who worked for peace and others, always.

The world is better because he was here.

[Pearlee]

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@Mersha wrote:

President Carter had a wonderful, impactful life.

A humble man who worked for peace and others, always.

The world is better because he was here.

@Mersha  As far as I know, he still IS here, present tense.

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[golding76]

Petty cavils of petty minds...

When one writes, "...because he was here," the past tense does not necessarily mean that the individual no longer exists.  Mersha, the poster, is using an appropriate tense for looking back upon someone's life.

For instance, if you (in general, not anyone in particular) are celebrating your beloved mother's 60th birthday and she has done much to make life pleasant and enjoyable for her family through the years, you might toast her with the following:  "Mother has been an abiding presence of love and understanding in our home.  Life was so much better because she was here."

You get the idea.

[KittySoftPaws]

Not sad at all, he was very lucky and blessed to live as long as he has. People are passing every day that are much much younger. What's really sad is children dying young. He wasn't known by too many that I know of, as a good President, but probably a very nice man. I can't say though, as I didn't know him personally.