Gmail - Neal Maxwell passes: "Maxwell spent hours in one-on-one conversations with each child,
writing them a personal note of gratitude every Thanksgiving. Later,
he and his wife organized a quarterly 'grandchildren's fireside''
to which every child in the family over age 10 was invited to discuss
religious topics, explore the scriptures or discuss philosophy.
His life became the fulfillment of a promise he made in the
foxholes of Okinawa. Shaking and crying in the mud, amid exploding
shells, Hafen writes, Maxwell pledged his life in service to God
should he live.
The soldier kept his word."