My Military Memories [View All]

[Amerpie]

1) The one phone call that my Dad made home from Vietnam. I thought it was so cool that we had to say "Over" when we were done talking.
2) Eating C-Rations in Basic Training and MREs in AIT
3) Looking at pictures of my grandfather in his pre-WW2 deployment to Trinidad-Tobago
4) Realizing how much money my 20 year old E4 son is making
5) Being proud that the Golden Knights jumped out of my Dad's helicopter
6) Seeing Halley's comet from the desert at NTC in 1986
7) Listening to my Grandfather and friends discuss the Battle of the Bulge as if Patton were a friend of theirs
8) Driving my son back to Norfolk after his leave was up and seeing the aircraft carriers in the distance at Hampton Roads
9) Being fascinated by the scars on my Dad's legs and seeing his Purple Heart for the first time
10) FInding a menu to the Officer's Mess from 1940 while I was helping to move the Second Armored Division Headquarters to a new building
11) Being wowed by my grandfather's tale of going from corporal to first sergeant in 6 months during WW2
12) Praying that my sons ship stays in drydock until we get a new president