OK,....read the story then go to the photo album and see if you can find the smiling face that once was your child is now an ADULT.
it makes me grateful and proud to see the young men and women of this country living the same right of passage as i did. everything means more when it counts for something. now they understand the true meaning and pride of the red white and blue. the purity, valor and vigilance living on in our young. this is the true gift of God.
I spent 4th of July 1987 going through basic training in Great Lakes, IL. I will never forget because we finished training and had lights out. I was on the top rack and next to a window and was able to see some fireworks outside. I of course would have rather be able to see them outside, but seeing them from the window was not bad in this situation.