https://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/kylan-a-jones-huffman/ The latest user comments on Kylan A. Jones-Huffman en-us https://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/kylan-a-jones-huffman/#c193112 https://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/kylan-a-jones-huffman/#c193112 Kylan and I were classmates and company mates at the Naval Academy. Kylan was smart, unique and kind. He was intelligent in a way that transcended the Academy P-ways. We reconnected after years of time away from USNA after I randomly ran into his younger sister at the Dartmouth gym in Hanover, NH. I got to read his haiku and marvel at this independent intellect at work for our country. We communicated on email a few times before silence descended for good on that brilliant and generous heart. In his last email to me, he lamented the experience of the children of Iraq, growing up with death and war all around them. 14 years later my heart still aches to recall the loss of Kylan. Thank you for providing a place to leave memories of this kind and wonderful person. Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:52:18 -0700 https://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/kylan-a-jones-huffman/#c184163 https://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/kylan-a-jones-huffman/#c184163 Kylan and I were friends growing up, I remember him as a child. We spent our time together playing games, mostly of a sort that were complex board games preferred by people more than twice our age, and talking about books we read, also typically books preferred by people of our parent's generation more than our own. Time passed, and we lost touch, as childhood friends often do. Today I set out to find him and to find out who he had become, and that journey brought me here. 13 years later, let me add a few flowers to the grave of an excellent human being. Sat, 30 Apr 2016 02:47:29 -0700 https://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/kylan-a-jones-huffman/#c129607 https://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/kylan-a-jones-huffman/#c129607 I knew Kylan as a haiku poetry writer, and he was a warm and inspiring human being, and a real great guy. I have never forgotten him, and his spirit, and what he could have done for good in Iraq, and in the poetry world as well. Wherever there is a patch of sunlight in the world, I feel Kylan is a part of that. A contemporary haiku poem by me: sunlight breaks on a bird and its portion of the roof Alan Summers In Japanese it reads: hi wa torini yane no ibasho ni sosogi keri trans. Hiromi Inoue, Masegawa Kawauchi town, Ehime Prefecture, Japan Publications credits: haigaonline vol. III (2003); Haiku Friends (Japan 2003) God bless you Kylan, Alan Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:02:32 -0700