My Army Life...and other things

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill

Thursday, July 27, 2006

The Queen's First Birthday




































I am in Oklahoma celebrating my granddaughter's 1st birthday. It's hard to believe she's a year old already. Seems like yesterday I was holding this tiny little thing two weeks old. Now she's one. Next thing you know, she'll be graduating college or getting married or something like that. But for now, she's still my cute little E. She's really a happy little kid. She was up late the night before her birthday because Daddy and Grandma Gordon were heading to San Antonio to watch Daddy's sister graduate from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, but that's the subject of another post. She had cake, and lots of presents, and cake, and some books from her Papa (that's me...), and...cake... Great Aunt Louise sent her one of those 'Killer Clowns'. She does have a way of winning one's heart. I'm gonna miss the little munchin when I go home. A lot.

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