 My close friend group, this is what we do. This is what we do when we get together for a wedding. This is what we do at those five-year reunions when we have time or when we go on that camping trip. In sort of a morose sense, this is what we've done for the funerals of our friends that we've lost. I experienced the loss of friends in the military, in combat, as well as in transition. One of my closest friends, Sean, died of melanoma cancer after a 10-year battle