[Squantos]

Thanks , I am grateful for your kindness......I return such courtesies to folks who support and sacrifice here at home for all our service men and women.....it’s as hard on the child, the mother, father, wife, husband and relatives as it is sometimes on the troops deployed.

Now in retirement I thank em as well yet I try and ask if I can do more....... change the oil in the family car, fix the gutters, boards or bricks that came loose, take their kids to outings with our family to give the spouse left behind some time to rest. Unless of course they’d rather get out and have fun as well...LOL !

Just watch out and help the family left behind is a burden lifted from the troops minds IMO and experience.

Be there for em if you can’t be there with em , as I know all here try too do ......:o)

Stay safe !

[SLB]

I go out of my way to congratulate every service member I meet. I remember coming back from Vietnam in August 1971 and being told not to go near the fence of Oakland Army Depot as the protesters would throw urine filled balloons at us. This was on top of the name calling.