Today is my last day in the Army! Nearly 12 years of service comes to an end. I did the best i could and wish i could have done more
I fly home Sunday night.
I fly home Sunday night.
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion;respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
My house hold goods get picked up on Tuesday. I final out on Friday. I fly home on Sunday.
Good Bye, U.S.Army!
Good Bye, U.S.Army!
Retirement Update:
Terminal Leave begins 30 July and last day in the Army is 23 Sept. I will be officially retired 24 Sept 2012. 11 1/2 years of service, 4 deployments, 44 jumps from a high speed aircraft to include rotary wing, 1000's of rounds shot, and hundreds of thousands of pounds of explosives detonated! What a ride!
Terminal Leave begins 30 July and last day in the Army is 23 Sept. I will be officially retired 24 Sept 2012. 11 1/2 years of service, 4 deployments, 44 jumps from a high speed aircraft to include rotary wing, 1000's of rounds shot, and hundreds of thousands of pounds of explosives detonated! What a ride!
It's looking like I'll be going on leave from the Army for the final time some time around the end of July/beginning of Aug. It's also looking like I'll be officially retired somewhere around 30 Sept. It's a bitter sweet time. I love being a Soldier, but it's time for me to move on. I'm just too injured to Soldier. So, one chapter ends and another begins.
