I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and salute our men and women both in and out of uniform this Memorial Day, especially those still on patrol...I was Air Force, E4 over 4 back in '85 and stationed in Europe, a mere 40 years after WWII, and the memories of what was accomplished during that struggle were still fresh in the minds of the people there. I was once personally thanked at the time by a civilian for what our fathers did to maintain their freedom 40 years earlier, and it made a deep impression on me - 40 years is the same time from 1985 to 2025, and I'm sure a lot of you remember the Eighties like it was yesterday...and now it's been 80 years since the end of that war, and I'm getting to be an old man (which is a Trip!), but age is a luxury many in the military - past AND present - did not get.
So I offer a crisp salute to my brothers in arms, and raise a beer to you this Memorial Day weekend, Lest We Forget.
