Edward Francis
Cahill
- 11 July
1937
26 Nov 2002
-
- I don't remember
the exact date that I met Ed, I do remember
- though
that it was on the
internet. He had visited my personal page and
- attempted to sign
my guest book but there was a mistake in the html and
- the guest book
wouldn't come up so being the perfectionist (and I say
- that lightly) he
sent me an
e-mail to inform me of that fact and from that
- point on we were
friends.
-
- We were both
retired law enforcement officers although our
- fields were
different. He was always in civilian law enforcement and I was
- mostly in the
military and federal government.
-
- He
was having problems with an old computer that he was
- using and
at that time I worked on computers and it seemed like everyday
- he was
complaining about that computer doing or most likely not doing
- something
that it should be and I kept telling him he needed to take it
- to the shop and
finally told him if he brought it to me that I would fix it
- or give him
another one that would work and it wouldn't cost him
- anything except
what he spent on the trip for food and gas.
- Well to my
surprise he accepted my offer and arrangements
- were made for the
visit. I will never forget the first time we shook
- hands at an old
service station over on hi-way 19 here in Aiken
- County, SC where
I had gone to meet him and his wife Astrid and
- escort them on
out to my place which is in the country, My wife really
- liked Astrid and
they hit it off pretty well I think.
- Over the
next two or three days we really got to know each other.
-
-
- I remember one
time he told me he was trying to fix something on
- his truck and
that he had put a box beside it to stand on and I
- told him to be
careful or he could bust his butt or worse. Well a
- few day's later I
got an e-mail telling me what, you guessed it, the
- box tipped over
and he came down hard on the fender and bruised a rib.
-
- Ed loved
horses and his family and he loved meeting new
- people
and every once in a while he might agree with me on some
- issue, but mind
you it was not too often. I believe he really liked
- living in TN and
had made lots of friends there as well as on the
- internet. He used
to tell me that his day started with a cup of
- coffee a
cigarette and checking his e-mail.
-
- We were both
Titan fans and tried not to miss a game so
- now when I watch
a Titan game I know they have one angel fan!
-
- Ed
was indeed my best friend and I surely miss him.