a few things to share
Throughout our great nation on this thanksgiving, Americans will gather around the dinner table with family and friends to share good food, warn laughter, and the happy memories of Thanksgiving past. but, for many of these families, whose loved ones serve in the Armed Forces, this year's Thanksgiving celebration will not be complete. a familiar voice will be heard and a chair at the table will remain empty because fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, uncles and aunts, and grandparents too, are far from home prtecting the blessings we celbrate this season.
overseas soldiers will gather in tents and celbrate as friends and comrades. on ships at sea, sailors will gather to enjoy the traditional Thanksgiving fare. in remote area, airmen will gather for a breif respite from montering the skies. and in other areas, marines will gather together to trade familly stories after their Thanksgiving day meal. these scenes will be repeated at military installations far and wide, at home in America, and across the globe.
so, as those of us who are blessed to be with our families this year ce3lebrate and give thanks, we will not forget the homes that have an empty chair at the table. and i offer a prayer to of Thanksgiving for you, the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, whose service and sacrifice guarantee the freedoms we hold so dear.
as i sit alone at a table in a crowded room, filled to beyond brimming, with people sitting together, as colleagues, coworkers, and friends, i realized what i am thankful for.........
this holiday season i am thankful to be alone. with nothing to distract me from me. no one to break the very precious silence.
thankful i have this timeto be alone. for a retrospective and respid time.
and i'm thankful i had a pen and paper handy to write all this down.
(this worked better as a visual)
i had an epighany today.......
i was in the show hall filled to the slightest of standing room, with people laughing and talking, with children singing and playing, with a jazz band playing. to drive down the street in my truck, and i saw Air Assualt students running back and forth from a blackhawk, with it lifting up, hovering, and touching down. i drove furhter to hear soldiers firing their m-4's on the range, qualifing one more time, just one of the several we have been forced to endure in the cold, wet, mud. all the while i was on the out side looking in.
"Life goes on doesnt it?"
Throughout our great nation on this thanksgiving, Americans will gather around the dinner table with family and friends to share good food, warn laughter, and the happy memories of Thanksgiving past. but, for many of these families, whose loved ones serve in the Armed Forces, this year's Thanksgiving celebration will not be complete. a familiar voice will be heard and a chair at the table will remain empty because fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, uncles and aunts, and grandparents too, are far from home prtecting the blessings we celbrate this season.
overseas soldiers will gather in tents and celbrate as friends and comrades. on ships at sea, sailors will gather to enjoy the traditional Thanksgiving fare. in remote area, airmen will gather for a breif respite from montering the skies. and in other areas, marines will gather together to trade familly stories after their Thanksgiving day meal. these scenes will be repeated at military installations far and wide, at home in America, and across the globe.
so, as those of us who are blessed to be with our families this year ce3lebrate and give thanks, we will not forget the homes that have an empty chair at the table. and i offer a prayer to of Thanksgiving for you, the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, whose service and sacrifice guarantee the freedoms we hold so dear.
as i sit alone at a table in a crowded room, filled to beyond brimming, with people sitting together, as colleagues, coworkers, and friends, i realized what i am thankful for.........
this holiday season i am thankful to be alone. with nothing to distract me from me. no one to break the very precious silence.
thankful i have this timeto be alone. for a retrospective and respid time.
and i'm thankful i had a pen and paper handy to write all this down.
(this worked better as a visual)
i had an epighany today.......
i was in the show hall filled to the slightest of standing room, with people laughing and talking, with children singing and playing, with a jazz band playing. to drive down the street in my truck, and i saw Air Assualt students running back and forth from a blackhawk, with it lifting up, hovering, and touching down. i drove furhter to hear soldiers firing their m-4's on the range, qualifing one more time, just one of the several we have been forced to endure in the cold, wet, mud. all the while i was on the out side looking in.
"Life goes on doesnt it?"
manko:
Blimey, you did 69 me on my comments, you naughty man.