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The Holiday season is upon us officially despite Wal-Mart and others trying to get the holiday spirit started back in August. Growing up in Canada Thanksgiving is a slightly different experience. As a kid Thanksgiving was the signal to get the Halloween g...
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We've been up to no good. After the Nunns returned to Bastrop from their relaxing Caribbean Cruise we pounced on them like jackals in the wild. Poor little Nunnelopes! They never saw it until it was too late. They could barely feel the inevitable. They su...
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Folks,Want to share this tid bit from a great Friend of mine from North of the Border doing the same thing we did but with my first flag on his shoulder. A Great piece for Military Mondays.Toby So I am approaching up on a month of being "here". Truth ...
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Yesterday the city of Bastrop held it's annual Veterans Day Ceremony and Classic Car Show. This is the fourth year this event has been held and it's always a lot of fun and the car show is really outstanding. There was live music and lots of food and vend...
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I am fortunate. I receive letters from deployed troops. I get pictures emailed to me from the front. I collect letters sent to me from mothers (who's husbands are deployed) with pictures of their new born infants. I walk into Fisher Houses. I help the wo...
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The Vet....He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carrier didn't run out of fuel.He is the loudmouth whose behavior is outweighed in the cosmic scales by four hours of un...
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Yesterday morning I got up before the crack of dawn and jumped into my PT and started to drive to the Fisher Houses at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio in a heavy thick fog. I've driven in the thick surreal Pacific fog at night. I've driven in th...
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Like everyone else in America right now my focus of concerns and worries are to our Brothers and Sisters at Fort Hood. Fort Hood is known as the Great Place and it truly is, as the Largest Military Reservation in the free world it hosts and nurtures to la...
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Just a friendly update and throwdown to the USMC Valour IT Team! ...
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NOVEMBER 1, 2009Hello Patti,THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.we just got mail today and everyone was so happy and excited to get phones cards and the little bit of love that went into those care packages was felt by all the Marines in COP NUKHAYB. i cant beg...