You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it G. K. Chesterton My dad was a quiet man who loved big fireworks. I miss him on the 4th of July. When it was dark enough, with his carefully selected box of fireworks in hand, Dad would walk to the end of our driveway …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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