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* The [[The Riftwar Cycle|novelisation]] of ''[[Betrayal at Krondor]]'' ends with this {{spoiler|in honour of Gorath, complete with a toast.}}
* Happens in the book ''First To Fight'' by David Sherman and Dan Cragg, it pops up throughout the rest of the series as well. To be expected, in a military series.
* Occurs in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* In William King's [[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Space Wolf]] novel ''Ragnar's Claw'', after Ragnar is gravely injured and {{spoiler|Lars}} killed, Ragnar is too ill to attend the funeral. When he is well enough to stand, the other young Space Marine gather, and their first words are "To {{spoiler|Lars}}."
** In Lee Lightner's ''Wolf's Honour'', Ragnar and {{spoiler|Torin}} talk of {{spoiler|Haegr}} at their last meeting.
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== Real Life ==
* "To Absent Friends" [https://web.archive.org/web/20060419124347/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/special/mess_night.htm is a real toast offered at military banquets.] In particular, it is the traditional toast for Sunday night in Commonwealth navies. (And the US Navy, I think.). At some banquets, it is illustrated literally by [https://web.archive.org/web/20121129223334/http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforce/a/powmiatable.htm having an empty table set aside and specially decorated in memory of POW/MIA's.]
** At least the Golden Corral restaurant nearest me (don't know if they all do) keeps one small table always decorated thusly, with an explanation posted of each symbolic part of the table. It's touching and refreshing, oddly, all at once, to see such a memorial setting put out in the eye of the general public.
* In Russia, the obligatory third toast, as long as the company drinking contains at least a substantial minority of Army/Navy/Airforce men, both active and retired.
* At the [https://schulzmuseum.org/ Charles M. Schultz Museum] in Santa Rosa, CA there is a table still set for him at the adjacent Warm Puppy cafe. People are welcome to sit there, and share his favorite space.
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* Subverted in an old joke about an Irishman (or other stereotypical hard drinker) who goes to a bar every week and orders a round of three drinks—one for himself and two for his brothers, who are alive but live far away. Each brother does this as a sort of long-distance show of kinship. One day he shows up and orders only two drinks—the bartender, fearing the worst, offers his sympathies but it turns out one of the brothers had just given up drinking.
** In some versions it was ''him'' who decided to quit drinking.
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