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Who Knew… 3 Years

You can listen to some songs a 1000 times and then one day they hit you with a whole new meaning. I’ve mentioned this before but again it has happened to me.

While  driving the song “Who Knew” by Pink came on the radio.  “if someone said three years from now you’d be long gone I [...]

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“An Ugly Pair of Shoes”

“An Ugly Pair of Shoes”

I am wearing a pair of shoes.
They are ugly shoes.
Uncomfortable Shoes.
I hate my shoes.
Each day I wear them, and each day I wish I had another pair.
Some days my shoes hurt so bad that I do not think I can take another step.
Yet, I continue to wear them.
I get [...]

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Pokey and the Packers…

Sitting here watching the Green Bay Packers play I can’t help but think about Micheal.  The last night we spent with Micheal we watched the Packers play.  Oct.7th 2007 They played the Bears.. I can’t remember who won.  I just remember he and his Dad and his brothers in my dad’s living room on the [...]

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They’re Here (Updated)

You may read this and think I am insane or that the grief has finally pushed me over the edge but I feel I have to share this story.

Last night through the men and families of the Company my son served with and I have adopted as my extended family I found out we had [...]

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Remembering on Memorial Day

A few days ago I received a message from an Army medic.

Angelia.. I tried so hard not to make memorial day a day for Moms to have to remember. I tried really hard to make sure it was a day their sons and daughters came home to see them, not the other way around. I [...]

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Marine’s Dad Ordered to Pay Funeral Protesters’ Court Fees (UPDATED)

As an American I have always been sickened by the disrespect and cruelty of the behavior of Westboro Baptist Church.  I will uphold their right to their opinion no matter how evil and sick I think it is but I cannot allow the picketing of Funerals.. Anyone’s funeral not just our [...]

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Westboro Baptist.. You Know the Ones Who Picket Military Funerals

Ok I have despised Westboro Baptist Church for years. anyone who can find glee in the death of a soldier or Marine is just sick in my humble opinion.  They have the right to protest and to their opinions but there is a time and a place for everything and funerals are not it. For [...]

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Anti-war Protests…Next Time Just Slap me

It’s one thing to hear about or even see pictures and video of something, it’s something completely different to actually experience it.  I have read about anti war protest.. I’ve seen the videos and pictures. .. and yes they were upsetting. I have listened to others talk about their experiences at antiwar protest and thought [...]

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2 years..and I Still Miss You Pokey

It’s been two years since we lost our Pokey.  I don’t care what anyone says about time healing or it gets better in time, fact is it doesn’t. If anything it gets harder.  As I watch his friends get married and start families I am happy for them but I mourn one more thing my [...]

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Whose War Is This?

As we go into the eighth year of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan I read more and more about how this is Bush’s War or now it’s Obama’s War and even read the statement by a British Military mom stating how proud she was her son who had joined the military and it [...]

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