Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Posted on 03/24/2024 5:03:27 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
I do believe that many who deserved the honor either never had their valor discovered or had the honor kaboshed at some paperwork level.
After reading, and watching the Band of Brothers, for example, I'm not sure why Richard Winters was never accorded the honor.
Howdy, Kathy.
Not a very pretty day up there but it must be somewhat warm. Even without sunshine, there’s been a lot of melting since this time yesterday. YAY!! Even starting to see bare ice on Lake Hood now.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting one Medal of Honor recipient (that I know of). Sergeant First Class Melvin Morris. He was staying at the same motel Hubby and I stayed at while visiting Dad in 2014. We spent quite a bit of time hanging out together at Outcast Corner (what I’d dubbed the smoking area. LOL) and we thoroughly enjoyed spending time with him. A really nice man and a lot of fun. He didn’t talk much about his time in service in Vietnam and I didn’t ask. I never do. If they want to talk about it, they will, and I’m all ears then. I learned about Melvin’s actions later by looking him up on Google. At the time we were spending time with him, I was just enjoying his company.
Howdy, luvie.
You are so right!
I imagine your kitties haven’t been out and about much. I see you’re under a high wind warning and I know they don’t like wind.
Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...glad you are really on the mend finally and headed back to work.
Hey there, radu!
You’re right about that. They don’t like it and neither do I. It’s still blowing hard and about to drive us all around the bend. We’ve had gusts up to 50mph. Ick. Brown skies. Stuff being blown all over the back yard.
Has it been windy there today, too?
NWS said y’all were having gusts 40 to 70 mph. Yikes! Not fun for anyone there.
It’s been pretty breezy here the past two days and we’ll be under a wind advisory tomorrow afternoon through Tuesday evening. Not quite as strong as you’ve had but still pretty stout. They’ll be strongest tomorrow night.
After reading, and watching the Band of Brothers, for example, I'm not sure why Richard Winters was never accorded the honor.
Below is a link to the speech of Representative Curt Weldon seeking the Medal of Honor for Richard Winters.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2005-pt9/html/CRECB-2005-pt9-Pg11761.htm
There was a couple of times that when I was trying to open or close the car door, the wind was pushing so hard, I couldn’t get it done properly. It’s been nasty. We’re just lucky that we didn’t have any local wildfires.
I hope when it gets there, it’s not this bad. You already have enough tree debris to deal with without adding to it!
Yeah, winds that strong make it hard to open any doors. I’ll have trouble opening the front storm door tomorrow even though the wind won’t be quite as strong as yours. No biggie, though, since I don’t use that door.
Glad no wildfires broke out over there. Now to see if we’re as lucky. The NWS doesn’t have us under an advisory but the Nashville news stations have been warning about the possibilities the past couple of days. It’s not all that dry here but with the wind, all it takes is some fool deciding to burn some trash ......
The whole country is windy right now. Nest cams are almost impossible to watch because they’re swaying so much and the cams are wiggling.
Yeah, it’s been bad all around. Tornadoes and high winds in Kansas and OK, too. I think EGC had some bad weather today, too. Hope yours doesn’t get bad enough to trigger wildfires from, like you said, someone’s stupidity.
I was gone all afternoon and didn’t get a chance to check what was going on weather-wise, so didn’t know things got so wild today. I just saw what was going on at the different nests when I checked on them this evening and went back through the streams.
Just have to hope folks over here play it smart and don’t try to burn any trash the next couple of days.
All is well here in Southern Oklahoma. We did have some Tornado Warnings South of us along the Red River including Wichita, Clay into Jefferson counties but a lot of that was just funnels. Gizmo hid under the bed last night from all the thunder and lightning.
No fires here in our neck of the woods. Hopefully none where you are either, Luvie.
Comanche Lake yesterday before the storms.
How's everyone doing this morning?
I imagine that the birds are as happy about all the wind as my kitties are. No one likes their feathers/fur ruffled.
Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))
Glad you and Gizmo were able to get out for some fun yesterday before the storms rolled through, and that you weathered the storms in good shape. Sounds like it was a little wild over there.
Poor Giz having to hide under the bed last night.
It’s been rough for them. Hard to hunt when the wind’s so strong. The West End eaglets went without food for a while but Chet finally managed to snag a big fish late today.
DNN has it tough. Wind AND snow and their first egg hatched overnight. At least there’s a fish in the “pantry” so there was food for it today.
I’m messing with the cats right now. I have the Germany cam up. The first egg hatched early today (yesterday Germany time) and going back in the stream, I found a time when Isolde was feeding. Tristan was close by hoo-ing and the cats can’t figure out where the sound is coming from. LOL
RoFl! Your poor cats. Getting them all wound up by an owl on the computer.
DNN always has it rough. The first season I ever watched that nest, it was the same situation. I just knew those babies were doomed, but by golly, the parents were so good and kept them so warm and safe.
I guess I’d better get outta here. I have to go have lab work done for a doctor’s appointment. NOT my favorite way to start a day. Luckily, I don’t have to get up early for it. As long as I don’t eat or drink anything before going out there, I’m good to go. See ya tomorrow!
Thanks, Gentlemen, for getting the links.
I should have added them at the beginning.
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