Our departed classmates may be gone, but they will never be forgotten. They grew up with us, they laughed with us, they cried with us, they comforted us, they worked with us, they got crazy with us and serious with us and some of them even fought for us. They were someone's best friend, or someone's husband, wife, brother, sister or cousin or they sat next to us in class. Their lives were important then as well as now and they made a difference in ours.