Oct. 02, 2010

Hello to All,

I guess I should really get back to this. I am out of Iraq but still in a Desert site away from home. My Grand Daughter Hailey has taken her first steps so can dance be far off? From the video we see she seems to like to get from “A” to “B” and back again. Let see two men “A” and “B”, name that movie.

Looking at what a number of my High School persons are saying (posting) is really interesting. My time just out of High School was the start of the end (but we didn’t know it) of Viet Nam. My path was different as I joined the Coast Guard with a number of the guys in my class getting drafted and the girls seemed to just move on. It took its toll on a number of them and later in life most of my fellow workers served and we all seem to have a common bond but we may not have known it at that time. Years later I find myself working with people who I can be their Grandfather not as the old dude but as equals. Somehow when they find out my age (62) a look of “No Shit” fills their faces. One 19 year old looked at me and said my Dad couldn’t keep up with you and he is 40. Today those who never seemed to think much about anything are now on the bandwagon about how our Country is being run. So focused on what is going on they never look at what has happened, how did we get here? Many are willing to “repost” stories as it was their own life. I have no major problem with this but it is all you hear from them. I would like to know how they feel not a cut and paste from someone whom I will never meet. SORRY but get a real life.

Each day I get to work with people who signed up to put their Life on the line for all of us and that is worth more than anything money can buy. At the end of the day when ALL of our people return unharmed and the aircraft we had as their shadows land it does not get much better except to see a photograph of them back home in the arms of those who Love and Missed them.

Thank you to all who serve in whatever roll, we all need each other and I for one will never forget. War is the result of Politicians failing to do the job they were elected to do.

I owe my Freedom to those who were, and are willing to serve and in nameless places were willing to commit unspeakable acts to protect and keep it alive.

Dane Walker