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With in the past couple of weeks there have been a couple of historical days. Memorial Day and D-Day Anniversary. Not far from my house is an American Legion and I drive past it several times a week if I am in Bastrop and it always captures my attention. One it holds a great F-4 and an Artillery piece that just chill out side in it's parking lot. Being that we have no airstrip nearby the bird of prey kind of sticks out. The kids love it because there is a wicked war bird that they can get real close to. I find myself envious of their exposure to cool military stuff since as a kid I had none and it's always around them. Jeff was returning from a West Coast trip where He and Patti were being honored for their founding of Soldiers Angels and I picked him up at the Austin Airport. We enjoy this Cajun Swamp Shack that makes the most delicious Crawfish in the area and had planned on stopping there on the way back. This is a planned stop that requires preparation, mainly purchasing Lone Star before arrival since it's BYOB and my plan was to introduce Scarlett to this treat so I got her favorite juice. Upon arrival we learned it was closed and now is on limited hours because of the effects of Gulf Disaster, they serve more than crawfish, shrimp and oysters etc.. We went to Plan B which is the Road House across the street from our neighborhood. We pulled in and looked at the American Legion and saw all the vehicles and we both sat there wondering what cool event must have been going on there. Not once did either one of us realize or acknowledge what historical day it was. Afterwards, I enjoyed some TV and then read a bit when all of a sudden the light in my head went on. How DARE I forget what day it was. How could I have forgotten and with all the signs and reminders? I started with the cliche' excuses, blaming television, poor education system, lack of connection of the public and veterans but then realized the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters. These don't apply to me, I have just become so self absorbed that I neglected one of the greatest days in modern world history. In my defense however I will state that there really was not much mention in the general public about D-Day, which leads me to believe the BOOMERS are letting the Greatest Generation down and ours as well because we should know, understand and comprehend why we are not under Fascist rule. We need to share this information, however I think with the amount of bullshit information we share these days we could not pull off another D-Day which is more reason to admire, respect and revere those that DID! Imagine the facebook, twitter postings and Media reports........ Breaking news....... Tweet states that..... Status Update.......
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