This past Thursday night, the "FReeper Cruisers" had a short, but moving, memorial service for BKO, BCM and CHIEF negotiator. We threw red and white roses in the ocean and sang "God Bless America," to say "goodby" and bring to closure our grieving for their untimely loss.
However, as one FReeper astutely noted, after most of the roses we threw in the sea were blown back on board the Majesty of the Seas (we were on the weather deck, 7th level), God is not quite ready for us to let them go! (We of, course, picked the roses up and recomitted them to the sea).
It is up to us to carry on for them, and never forget them.