Thanks guys for your responses to my call. Down deep I know the likes of Mike CVUA, USAF (Ret)--Jon, Johng, Lou, and  others on these boards who had the opportunity to serve or not,-------need no prompting from me to to remember those who did serve, now serving, and will be serving-----particularly those who paid the supreme sacrafice, or, returned, or will return, with bodies and minds not the same.

Locally, we have kids who were playing Little League baseball not to many years ago, now deployed in harm's way.

Hard to comprehend!!

Not just Afghanistan and Irag----"boots" on the ground in other areas of the mideast, The  Balkans, Southern Philippines, South Korea, areas of Africa, etc.,--"hot spots" or potential "hot spots"----that we know of-----other "spots" round the world, and (guaranteed).... covert "spots"we don't know of, with no end in sight.

Hard to think, our 17 month old Great-Grandson might someday be filling a pair of those "boots."

Frank!