We offer our sincere sympathy in your great sorrow.
Resolved, That ———— records its profound respect for ———— and its sense of great loss through his death.
He set an example of service and self-sacrifice which is inspiring.
The ———— extend to ———— and to the members of his family their deepest sympathy and join with them in mourning the loss not only as a splendid member of our ———— but as a most excellent citizen.
Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to his family.
May I express to you my sincere condolence in your hour of sorrow. I have just learned that your son gave his life, though not in battle, still in his and our Country’s cause. We are all proud of him, and I sincerely hope that you will find much comfort in the knowledge of the affection in which he is held.
We have just been informed that your son’s body has been lovingly laid to rest at home. If ever we were proud of our soldier boys it is now. Every day their sacrifices are more precious to us as we dwell upon their likeness to the greatest of all sacrifices which God made for us through his Son.
May the God of all comfort, comfort you and yours is our prayer.
I am thinking of you to-day in all your sorrow, yet knowing that you are comforted. Comforted by the assurance that your son died as a true soldier, giving his all at its best for you and for his country; comforted by the fact that you have him near you again, where you can go occasionally in sweet reverence and recall precious memories. Above all you must be comforted by the Redeemer’s resurrection promise that you shall see your dear son again.
I am very grateful for your kind expression of sympathy. My heart is filled with gratitude when I think of my good friends.
Permit me to thank you in behalf of ———— for your courteous message of sympathy.
I thank you kindly for your consoling letter. Though I have waited some time to reply, its messages were none the less deeply appreciated.
Your kind letter was a great solace to me in my recent loss. One does not realize how much comfort is derived from such beautiful expressions of sympathy.
I am grateful to you for your kind expression of sympathy. Surely it has been an hour of great trial to me, but I have been sustained in it all by the grace of God, and loving-hearted friends.