Thanks for honoring vets. My father & father-in-law were WWII vets & my husband is a Vietnam vet. Their take on life was & is from an entirely different frame of reference. But I do have to say that Vietnam vets carry tremendous hurt as they were treated horribly upon return to the states. Now with this admin, they are losing many services & it's just another slap in the face. Sorry I had to vent a little.
Not many a day goes by when idiot typist me does not think about all the horrors encountered by combat veterans - and all the sacrifices made by ordinary Americans - during the second Great War, all due to the megalomania of one person.
I assure myself at least that will never happen again.
Then along comes Donald Trump.
I certainly hope there are enough brave Senators who will do the right thing and either kill Trump's budget plan or revise it towards something more compassionate to the less fortunate - namely me.
Thank you for the lesson in perspective, Mr. J, I shall try to keep it in mind when my favorite baseball team fails to generate any offense against some nobody pitcher with an obese ERA.
My dad enlisted in the army in 1942. In basic training in winter on a bivouac, his wool uniform froze to parts of his body. So he spent weeks in the hospital getting wool picked out of his skin. By the time he got out his unit had been shipped over to D-Day, and according to him most of them didn't come back. He ended up spending the war as an MP in Houston. Lucky.
I haven't thought about that for a long time. So thanks again.
Lee, thank you for a poignant and heartfelt column today. My father and 3 of my uncles (brothers of my mother, who was a Navy nurse who tended injured soldiers back in the U.S.) served in WWII. Luckily, all came back.
Thanks for honoring vets. My father & father-in-law were WWII vets & my husband is a Vietnam vet. Their take on life was & is from an entirely different frame of reference. But I do have to say that Vietnam vets carry tremendous hurt as they were treated horribly upon return to the states. Now with this admin, they are losing many services & it's just another slap in the face. Sorry I had to vent a little.
No sweat, Twila...this is the right place for venting.
Not many a day goes by when idiot typist me does not think about all the horrors encountered by combat veterans - and all the sacrifices made by ordinary Americans - during the second Great War, all due to the megalomania of one person.
I assure myself at least that will never happen again.
Then along comes Donald Trump.
I certainly hope there are enough brave Senators who will do the right thing and either kill Trump's budget plan or revise it towards something more compassionate to the less fortunate - namely me.
Thank you for the lesson in perspective, Mr. J, I shall try to keep it in mind when my favorite baseball team fails to generate any offense against some nobody pitcher with an obese ERA.
Oh, who am I kidding?
Good read, thanks.
My dad enlisted in the army in 1942. In basic training in winter on a bivouac, his wool uniform froze to parts of his body. So he spent weeks in the hospital getting wool picked out of his skin. By the time he got out his unit had been shipped over to D-Day, and according to him most of them didn't come back. He ended up spending the war as an MP in Houston. Lucky.
I haven't thought about that for a long time. So thanks again.
Lee, thank you for a poignant and heartfelt column today. My father and 3 of my uncles (brothers of my mother, who was a Navy nurse who tended injured soldiers back in the U.S.) served in WWII. Luckily, all came back.
You're very welcome, Bob. Glad you liked it.