....and we had a lovely Appreciation service at church.
No matter what your thoughts on war are - we should all be truly thankful to our Veterans (those who serve now and those who have served in the past). It's because of them that we have the freedoms to disagree.
I thought a lot about my Dad and my husband yesterday.
My Dad was one of the last draftees for World War II. He was "old" (in his 30s) and had a wife & child. He served in the Navy on a supply ship in the South Pacific. I was little but I remember him leaving. and I remember a couple of times when he came home on leave, and I remember writing letters to him and him writing letters to me. It was such a vastly different world then. No instant communication. You just prayed and went about your chores because that's all you could do.
My husband was in three branches of the service - all before I knew him. He served in the Navy for 3 years and then was in the Air Force Reserve and the Army Reserve. He always loved Veterans celebrations where they had veterans stand for their branch of the service and he got to stand 3 times.
And so, today is the legal holiday for Veterans Day - the stores all have sales, the government employees go shopping and we generally don't really think about what this day was supposed to be.
It does feel strange for it to be a Monday and me not be driving the 45 minutes to and from a Cancer treatment - but it'll be waiting for me tomorrow :(
Can you tell I'm feeling a bit melancholy?
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