Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Thanksgiving Eve...

...Arizona desert style...:)

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship
of the Creator.”
~Mahatma Gandhi 

Monday, November 11, 2013

Thanks, Dad...

...for your military service to our country during WWII.
Thank you for fearlessly
flying long tedious hours "old school" style...
anxiously awaiting
the next circling signal ship stationed below
to help set your course
through the vast and lonely airspace of the Pacific theater.
Thank you
for selflessly risking life and limb and aircraft...
on a seemingly endless basis. 
Thank you for safely completing
repeated
take offs and landings on exotic foreign shores.
Thank you, too,
for skillfully and accurately negotiating those newly made
threadlike coral runways of
distant, unknown, microscopic atolls...
the names of which would soon become emblazoned
in the pages of history.
Thank you for all these things
which brought you home safely...to mom
and,
eventually, in short order to me.
Your service
not only
evacuated the sick and wounded,
returned loved ones home.
and
provided supplies needed for the war effort...
it also 
helped make our world a safer place...and my future brighter.
The freedoms I enjoy today
come from your unselfishness and love of country. 
Special thanks to you, too, mom,
as a young wife,
for supporting your true love...and keeping the
home fires burning here stateside.
I love you both.
 

"As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them."
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy