TheBanyanTree: Rumbly beginnings...

[auntiesash]

Thanks.  Me too. :)

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Sachet <MountainWhisper at att.net> wrote:

> Very poignant, sash. I love your dad.
>
>
> On 11/11/2010 4:22 PM, auntiesash wrote:
>
>> The motorcycle cops are first... although the tank that rolled past about
>> and hour ago put us all on warning.
>>
>> Every year, the Veteran's Day parade goes right by my window.  Scores of
>> vets on motorcycles, riding in jeeps.  Herds of boy scouts, several
>> marching
>> bands.
>>
>> Lots of flags.
>>
>> Every year, about this time, I think "Why didn't I just bring dad to work
>> with me this morning??  He could have seen the parade."  I think he would
>> like it.  One time he told me "being a soldier was something I did, not
>> something I AM"  When he talks about WWII, he tells me about Italian women
>> and fig trees.  Clever devices they used to keep the salt water out of the
>> oil.  I think we should have sent my dad to the oil spill last year.  I
>> bet
>> he could have rigged up something.
>>
>> It's a cold clear November day and I will mostly sit with my back to the
>> parade for the next two hours.  Now and then I will stop and look out the
>> window and I'll tear up.  For soldiers and for war and for my dad and for
>> wondering if I'll remember next year...or if there will be a next year for
>> him.
>>
>> Happy Veteran's Day...if happy is the word that we need there....
>>
>>


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Democracies are indeed slow to make war,
but once embarked upon a martial venture
are equally slow to make peace
and reluctant to make a tolerable,
rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr