“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.” —Marcus Aurelius

“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.” —Benjamin Disraeli

“…and where are the comrades, so kind and so brave,
Who proudly left Mauston, the Union to save?
The death roll, so lengthy, does mournfully say,
How foremost in battle was Company K.” —James P. “Mickey” Sullivan, “Old Company K”