Posted on 06/04/2009 6:00:00 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Thanks for the link to the FDR D-Day speech.
Good evening, AZ...hope your day was nice enough for you to commute on foot. I think I would like being able to walk to work on occasion.
They are aren’t they? That’s a picture I’ve been waiting to see! My daughter texted with the pic that it looked like they would have a little time together, more than the half hour she thought so that was great.
Just wow...
You have good reason for your bias.
I’m glad he’s home.
My daughter is very crafty! She also made him a scrapbook of all that he missed this last year, month by month, it’s beautiful, she’ll give it to him at his welcome home party she’s having in early July.
It was his first deployment, a long year and of course we are so proud of him and thrilled to know he is back on U.S. soil!!
Evening, Kathy.
Just thinking about our heroism during World War II makes me sigh for a lost world.
Good mornig, Meg...((HUGS))...thanks for the beautiful remembrance and links
Good morning, Mooch...((HUGS))...I second your sigh. Our troops are just as heroic as always, but their CinC....
Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.
Coffee is always on........
How about a donut?
Cookies?
Veggies?
Sandwich?
Good night.
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My Favorite Spring -- Tom Paxton
I used to play baseball. I used to love to play.
The people all said I'd be a winner someday.
We played on the sandlots and the gravel school yards
I once had a tryout with the Saint Louie Cards.
The Cardinals said, "Young man, we sure like your arm."
We believe you can make it. We'll send you down to the farm.
You need a little seasoning, play a little double “A”
We'll give you a chance to show how much you want to play.
[Chorus]
That was my favorite spring. I could do anything.
Full six feet tall and lean, I was just seventeen.
My fastball was nothin' but smoke. My curve ball snapped and broke
My change-up made 'em look bad. They couldn't hit a thing I had.
I was pitching down in Tampa. I was doing really well.
I was in the rotation. I was giving 'em Hell.
I threw a two-hitter, ought to heard people shout
The very next morning Korean war broke out.
On the spur of the moment I didn't have any plans.
I went and joined the Air Force. I wound up in Japan.
I pitched for the squadron. We toured all the camps.
We didn't have any problem. We were all Far East Champs.
[Chorus]
I was throwin' a no-hitter the day McArthur got fired.
They were going down like ten-pins. I really had 'em wired.
Bottom of the seventh throwin' easy as can be
Something snapped in my shoulder. That was all she wrote for me.
Well I finished up my service and I moved back down here.
I married a fine lady and I found a new career
We had us a young son and we watched Jimmy grow
And the first time he asked I taught him everything I know.
[Second Chorus]
And this is my favorite spring. He can do anything.
Full six feet tall and lean, He's just seventeen.
His fastball gives 'em the shakes. His curve ball snaps and brakes.
His change-up makes 'em look bad. People say he takes after his dad!
A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.
((HUGS))Morning, LUV W. How’s it going?
BTTT
Great man - and I'll never forget it. He mailed me for several years afterward.
Looking at Gen. Eisenhower's call for God in that encouraging letter, it almost seems like we were a completely different country back then than we are now.
So sad.
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