On December 7th, 1941, my great-grandfather, Charles Thomas Sewards was an elevator operator in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. He had moved there from Ohio in late August looking for work. He had maintained that job for nearly four months when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Phillipine Islands.

On December 10th, he was drafted and reported to basic training during which time he merited "Expert" on the M1 Garand and "Sharpshooter"...

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You ever just read something on here and it catches you on a bad day, at the wrong moment and it makes you just want to scream?

Say someone who time and time again posts something or several things that at first you thought, "they can't be serious" but then the more you read you realized that they absolutly WERE serious, and it kinds of gets on your nerves? Then the more you think about it the more mad you get, so you decide to actually USE your ignore button. The worst part...

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I just saw this on the Air Force Times website:
Medic in famous photo dies after PTSD struggle - Air Force News, news from Iraq - Air Force Times

It reminds me of so many stories of men and women who did what was asked of them and so much more, and couldn't bear the transistion to a world without war. Brings memories and thoughts of Flags of Our Fathers and Born on the Fourth of July.

My heart and thoughts are with his family and friends.

I am not...

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I just got this from the First Sgt:

A PIN DROP



When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was
asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an
example of empire building' by George Bush.

He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has
sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for
freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have...

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A long one but I know you all will enjoy, just bear with it!

I headed out of town this morning to drive to Lubbock to pick up a box from Fed Ex Ground (yes, a two hour drive to Lubbock to the nearest "Fed Ex Ground" station, doesn't that tell you that I live in the middle of nowhere!). Well I got maybe 40 mioles into Texas, when on Route 84, I was passed by a big, white Ford pick-up being driven by a blonde.

She pulled back into my lane in front of me, tapped...

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