Thank you for your father’s service. He may not be not be around physically, but he’ll always be in your heart and you know what he did and the honor he put his life on the line for.
Last I saw the statistic, over 2,400 men from WWII were dying every day but I looked it up and in 2012 it is around 600 a day. Maybe there just aren’t that many left. I would hope that they passed on what they did to their families. My father only talked about the actual fighting in WWII mentioning only three incidents. But he loved to talk about leave and the girls he met. I think most vets don’t like to talk about what they saw and based on what my dad described, I can understand why. Plus they don’t want to sound like they’re bragging.
You pray as well for all your loved ones and yourself and the future of this country. Men will always let us down but God, never; people just need to understand that time for him is probably incomprehensible for us.
Have a great weekend.
My son just returned from his third tour in Afghanistan. This time he was in HQ and found that they had Officers bunking with their same sex subordinates and nobody did anything about it. He is staying in the Reserves..he just has too much time in to give up.
Are you sure -- almost 900,000/year?
Thank you so much, Lx. Your comments about your father talking about the girls he met on leave, has me smiling. My father liked to talk about the all the French women he and his buddies met after Normandy, but never Normandy itself, (of course). He talked about the wonderful food and never-ending welcome they were given, wherever they went, by women of all ages, shapes and sizes, and old men too, for that matter. He liked France, but never again left the USA.
At 600 a day, those men will soon be gone from this earthly life. God bless them all.
Thanks very much for replying to me. God bless and keep you and everyone you love. We won’t stop praying. We know He listens to our prayers.