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The GOAT is dead. Long live Salt Lake's John Paul Brophy.
I've lived long enough to lose many buddies along the way.
I lost a buddy yesterday. Don't think I need to speak to say, I'm gonna miss him. No words will grieve his memory, When I saw him last, he looked at me, And said, I'll see you again. But he was gone Gone by Monday. The lines above are from a song that I wrote many years ago, titled "Gone by Monday."
That verse was originally written for my good friend, Frank "Woody" Robison of Fillmore, a Combat Marine who served two tours in Vietnam. Robison survived the hill fights and siege at Khe Sanh in 1968, only to succumb to Vietnam demons here at home barely more than 20 years later.
Since then, that…
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