This morning I was searching for a quote related to soldiers and somehow ended up HERE.....good reading. An interesting article by Eric Hartley of the Capital Gazette, Maryland, recounts the story of a man who found a letter written by his great-great-grandmother, Esther Thayer, stuck in the back of an old pocket Bible. The Bible was carried …
Author: Brooke McGillivray
What Memorial Day Looks Like…..to me
On 23 April 2007, a young Oregon soldier was killed along with 8 others from his 82nd Airborne unit. His father reached out to Doug shortly after being notified by the army. They were casual acquaintances thru work...their shared military experiences and those of our sons had created a bond. Over the next few weeks we watched …
What Memorial Day Feels Like….to me
Waves roll gentle ....water, sky and sand swirl together like an iridescent pearl. Hundreds are gathered, flags ripple in the breeze.... and truth be told, I don't want to be here. I don't want to be this close to death. Fifty, maybe sixty Patriot Guard riders park their motorcycles and stand shoulder to shoulder along both sides of …
Counting Them Home
Calendars and clocks were no use to me...at least not until the very end. And even then there is no civilian who can compete with the Army's time table. The days of sons deployed .... these were counted in missed Christmases and birthdays... in breaking news stories I didn't want to watch but couldn't help …
Poppies
I bought my first poppy Saturday. Not my first ever....just for this season. I'll end up with several more.... one for the car rearview mirror, my jacket zipper pull, one taped to the monitor of my work computer. I'm a sucker for poppies, anything red,white and blue, anything remotely military. I love Memorial Day and …
Glad the World didn’t end Today…..
........otherwise I'd have missed my birthday ....and more time with my little peeps.....
No Place for Quitters ….. 5th of series
Before our move to Alaska, my life was pretty safe. I'd never really met an on purpose mean person. I was about to. The tow truck operator .... I do remember his name but will keep it to myself. From now on I'll refer to him as "the man" and his place of business as "the shop". I forgave …
From Light To Dark ….. 4th of series
"HE is before all things, and in HIM all things hold together"... Colossians 1:17 Wish I'd known that verse before we left Destruction Bay. But maybe it wouldn't have mattered. What I did know that morning .... God's handiwork dazzled our eyes around every turn. It was too big to capture with a cheap camera. …
Into the Snow ….. 3rd of series
...if you've started reading our great adventure today, you can find parts one and two here and here. We've a few more pages left to this story...... It was snowing lightly that first morning in Haines. Reports said blizzard, so we hurried thru breakfast. We should have savored it ....it was to be the last "normal" meal for a while. …
Courage to Stand ….. 2nd of series
I've known my husband over 43 years. Doug is an original thinker. He's not afraid to try the untested. He has faults, but being wimpy is not one of them. It's one thing to sit behind a computer screen and type what you believe....it's something totally different to stand in front of people and say and/or do …
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