Three Years of Silence — Missing my Friend

Jon Acton
4 min readJan 25, 2024

Three Years of Silence — Missing my Friend

Three years. You have been gone for three years and I still have no idea how that’s possible. You were the biggest, the strongest, the smartest and the most likely to create havoc. You were a friend to everyone. Well, almost everyone. You were the real-life version of someone who never knew a stranger. You were a husband, a dad, a brother, and a son. You were a teacher, a coach, a mentor, a sage and a storyteller. You were bigger than life. You were also my best friend. Cancer didn’t care. Cancer fulfilled its only…

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Jon Acton

Husband, Father, Former School Superintendent, National Blue Ribbon School Principal, Teacher, Coach, Author in progress