Today’s post is simple – and hard.

 

 “Weddings are discretionary, funerals mandatory”.
~ Rudy Guliani’s father

 

 

Jasen Estes loved his wife and Jeeps. His favorite pastime was working on or driving his Jeep with a group of like-minded Tennessee Jeep fanatics. For those of you who don’t understand, they went places like this:

It was all fun until Jasen discovered melanoma. It was fast. He was 35 years old, his wife 32.

His friends wanted to show her that it was more than just good times on back roads. So they spontaneously organized this:

It wasn’t about the Jeeps. It was about his wife and honoring a friend.

Jasen had new parts he’d never had a chance to put on. It’s a Jeep thing. They don’t come this way from the factory. The group is having a garage day soon to finish the job.

Jasen’s Jeep

They did this quietly, with dignity. It was heartfelt. If I didn’t know some of those involved you would never have heard of it. But when people set such a good example I feel compelled to share.

It was the kind of honor guard you’d expect for a hero, which Jasen never claimed to be. But I think you can tell by his friends that he was what we all can aspire to.

He was somebody’s hero.