In America Veterans Day honors military veterans. It is both a state and a national holiday, usually observed on 11th Day in the 11th Mount to also celebrate Armistice Day and the signing of Armistice with Germany at the ending of World WarI at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
For me all that I've been able to think of these during recent days is our thirteen fallen dead at Fort Hood this week. Watching the diplay of the "battlefield crosses" on display at the memorial service yesterday hurt my heart. I do not believe I will ever forget that image: the boots, the helment the gun forming a cross situated next to a photo of each man and woman who died in the shooting.
All I've been thinking of, I've said all day, "All I've been able to think of" is my own beloved twenty-five year old grandson Army Ranger, Pearson Reid Branltey who will deploy in the spring.
Today l celebrate Pearson's life and all day I will be celebratng most of all that I know he is alive and well and looking very happy shown here in this recent photo with his sister Amanda and his true love Becky.
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