Thank You PJ and all 10Cers for making Come Back true.(LONG)

just wanted to say, such a nice ending for you and your sarah.

i hope it helped you find a little more peace and helps you carry on with your life

best wishes

Adam(Andy!), thanks for sharing your story. I couldn't make the show, but watched the setlist with anticipation, just knowing that they'd come through for you. I was thrilled they played it, and now can't listen to the bootleg recording without tearing up when Come Back starts. Incredible band, incredible story, and I'm certain you were married to an incredible woman. Thanks for sharing this piece of your life with us. I think it has forever changed the way I listen to this song.

My mom passed away about 2 months ago.
Hoosiers thank you for posting all you did so the song could be played.
I told my wife they were going to play it and they did. It was very special.
It was so special to see them play it and here Eddie talk about Sarah.
She has been in our prayers.

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

JB128716 wrote:

Here's a good version of it from the front row (filmed by someone else).


http://youtu.be/EDIENVscu3A

i've been going to concerts for 25 plus years and this is the coolest, most emotional moment i have ever seen.. thanks for sharing the video. i could not hear everything he was saying that night, so it was a nice refresher..

yeah got some goosebumps

CanuckPJGurl wrote:

When they played this song I burst into tears. The images of Sarah from your video popped into my head and when I looked up at the sky there were little flashes of light... I got my phone out and recorded the sky and at the end of the song a huge burst of light filled the sky... I looked at my husband and said... Sarah is here she just lit up the sky with here smile... Adam I am so sorry for your loss but I believe your angel was there and she was beaming! I have to say I have never been prouder to be a Pearl Jam fan than I was when Eddie talked about Sarah and made one sweet wish come true...angels be with you and your family always

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... =2&theater

Video of Sarah's Smile

This is my wife's post from this morning. We held each other and cried for your loss, but also joy for all the caring given to you by this community...and this band. A magical experience.

I was so happy to see and hear this happen and can only imagine what it must have felt you feel when it did!
What a special moment.

I'm very glad the band played Come Back for you. I can't imagine going through what you did, but it's great that the band recognized your loss and were able to contribute to you emotionally. All the best!

Out of a special show with so many special moments, this was one of the best highlights and was amazing. So happy they played and this, and very happy that I got the chance to meet you at the show Hoosiers, as you were randomly walking by and I recognized you from the video tribute. I will think of this every time I hear Come Back now.

Such a great moment during the show.

I'm so happy that they played the song for you and your wife! I hope it helps with your healing process.

When I first signed up for the fan club.it was the mother love bone connection, and then the mookie blaylock thing and then tenclub and I had numbers so low I was a dipshit for never resigning up over and over because I was homeless at some points, or in hospitals or doing life in the life way... and missing the opportunity to connect to people. I re-signed up in 2000, and never unsigned up again... and I hadn't posted much at all but I've been reading most always- because even though I don't know very well how to connect with people, I know really well how to feel with music... and your Sarah, your story- your LIVING is exactly how I know how to feel.

When I was reading your story, I was brought back to 2003, when my friend, at the age of 34, died of a disease that started out as "some flu or something else", and ended up as four months in the hospital, that left her blinded, necrotic tissue stealing her hands, and on life support only six months after her wedding. She had found her true love, and was so happy in her life, and yet illness was cruelly taking it all away, just as I was reading about Sarah, I was brought moment by moment back to those days. Her husband- as close as anyone can be to me- also took on the world and decided to make a memorial a LIVING choice rather than a morose choice of gloomy memorials. He brought her ashes to my wedding and we got to spread them at the exact spot he and she were married. He blended some of her ashes with the beach sands of coasts around the country, and saved them in a bottle he keeps by his favorite portrait on the mantle in their home. Ten years later he is finding love again, and he's a whole person, able to share how much he cared for her, and the best part is, he doesn't apologize for a moment of his life with her, and never has to feel she needs to be taken off the mantle or away from his present tense. She is his now, as she was his then. And, the woman he loves now is the greatest person for understanding he is the sum of all of his parts, including the heart my friend made and built.

I was so happy reading that Eddie said Sarah was one of the good ones. I didn't get to go to the show. I don't get to go to many shows, as I'm in a wheelchair, and it's not always easy.(That and the service dog likes the uke shows, but sometimes has a hard time seeing over the folks during the PJ sets!) I always feel like Eddie is singing directly to me when he sings about Veterans, and it's a special feeling. I can't possibly imagine how wonderful it must be to know that Eddie DID sing directly to you and to console you about losing Sarah. You got to represent so many of us who have been in so much pain, and needed to feel as if we could feel anything again. YOU got to be OUR heart for the night, and I can't thank YOU enough for sharing Sarah and your feelings, because the music allows us our humanity, and our humanity allows us our ability to love and be loving to you and for you. YOU got to be the Arc for the evening. WE needed you as much as you needed the music, and I am so grateful that the boys heard you call to them and listened, and reminded you, as a person, and us, as fans that people need to be cared about. It makes the music so much more honest. It makes the band so much more honest. It makes the experience that much more real not just for you, not just for those who got to be around you, but for those of us who weren't able to be there. We are with you, and feel for you, and as long as you need friends, and support, and strength, and as long as you need to know that Sarah loved you, we will be here for you. It's not just music. It's not just a club. It's just what it is... and thanks to you, we get to share it.