Pray for a Veteran and honor those who have gone before

My father was a WWII Air Force Corporal, a Veteran, who was shot down, as a bombardier, over Poland in 1944. He had just married my mother and did not know she was pregnant and she was told he was MIA. He landed in a tree, followed a young girl to her home, displayed his Crucifix, praying they were Catholic,so they could help him, which they did. He ended up in the Russian Army and came home in time for my sister Lynda's birth. He wrote about his story and almost had a television program about his time in the war on "Twelve O'Clock High" but he died right before he signed the contract. He was also going to redo his steps with his flight crew in Poland but died.. He died 25 years to the day that he returned to my mothers surprise and birth of my sister. I have his pictures, his story and war momentous but I was too young to ask what he did in the war as he died when I was 13. I go to cemeteries because it proved they lived, not died. I see no death there only life eternal.

I just watched "Memorial Day" on TV and at the end he says he was thankful that someone forced him to to talk about his war days as the stories live on and can help those moving forward in this strange and changing world we live in.
To all who are serving, have served or who have memorials to their lives, I say thank you!!!!!! Thank you for your service, making my life better and safer, but thanking you because you care enough to do that.

I was given a 60th birthday party this weekend by my wonderful family. All families should be like mine. We are there for each other, help each other, see each other, go out of our way for each other and celebrate the good and bad times together. Whether they are friends or true blood they will move heaven and earth to be there for you, not talk about it or be selfish about it whatever there lives may hold, they are just there and MINE is and was!
I am so thankful.



So everyday we are to be there, in person, to help the ones we love. No excuses when it comes to family, ever. No matter what turmoil your life is in there are people out there you can connect and just be there for them. We all have stuff in our lives, whether true or imagined, but family is constant. I miss my father every day and think about him and my mother, who I talk about in my Selvedge Queen speaker program. I thank them daily for the good and negative they may have instilled in me. I wish for one more day with them so I can ask them stories of their lives.

Be brave, ask your loved ones for some stories……
Jessica