Wednesday, August 7, 2019
It's hard to think that my good friend of 45 years is gone. Our friendship is so intertwined with our personal lives...the struggles and successes....and all those many gatherings that I barely remember a time when we weren't friends, business partners and confidants. We worked together as investigators for many, many years, in a variety of capacities and always, always, on the side of truth and fairness. We both struggled with alcohol and helped pull each other over the line, when that was what was required. Through the years, Ed shared with us his life stories, his devotion to his children and his dedication to what was right and just and, his adoration for the love of his life, Diane. Our families spent holidays together on the beaches of Long Beach Island and the Outer Banks and traveled together to the City of Arles, in France. He was a kind and generous human being who frequently came to the aid of those in need, like the young man stricken with seizures in a plaza in France, whom Ed came to rescue, until the ambulance and police arrived; or the woman who collapsed aboard the No. 6 train whom he picked up and carried to safety in the station. Always, always without fanfare or grandiosity. Once, he stopped a violent fight aboard a subway by gently interposing himself between the 2 combatants and convincing them to suspend their fight until the many frightened bystanders could safely reach the station. Patty and I will always be grateful for his help in moving my mother from LI to Florida....and a short time later, back to Long Island!! He was, in so many ways, a modern heroic. But above all, he was my best friend and his passing leaves an emptiness that's will never be filled. Friends come and go; good friends, lifelong friends, are irreplaceable. Today, our thoughts are with Diane, and with Eddy John, Jacki and Jennifer and with his sister, Patti.
