TheBanyanTree: A memory

[NancyIee at aol.com]

Those lives we have touched live on in us everytime we remember. Vets more  
than most, I suppose, because of the times they shared. Trauma and violence 
and  danger bring people together more closely than do good times.  How 
many  times might we have neighborhood cookouts and regard those in attendance 
as  "friends", yet if there is a neighborhood disaster, and all gather 
together to  do battle to that time, they become "brothers and sisters". Whenever 
those who  have joined to survive get together, they look at one another 
and say "remember  that time?" even if never in spoken words.
 
I was never in a war, but had relatives and friends who were. I recognize  
that bond between them, and ,though I never shared their war, I also cannot  
watch a parade of veterans, witness their inner tears, and  help but catch  
the edge of their bond.
 
Thank you, Russ, and all your comrades.
NancyLee