Rememberance Day...........................

if i remember to

I'll probably be asleep still, so unless I'm talking in my sleep then I will be being silent, but if I am awake, I'll be silent on purpose, I've not seen anywhere selling poppies, maybe when I got to the shopping centre I'll find someone, you always see people asking for donations and selling things that you don't want and as soon as you do want people shaking tins at you, they just aren't about.

I didn't do anything for Veteran's day. I didn't even realize it was Veteran's day until my daughter came home from school and started talking about the Veterans that came and talked to them at school on Thursday. So I talked to her about what a Veteran was and why we celebrate them and told her how her Papa (my dad) was a Veteran and had fought in a war. I don't think she really understood it though because she doesn't get that her Papa was once young and in the Marine Corps. She just knows he drives the trains, lol. I don't know if there were any parades around us but I did think of my dad on Saturday and all the Vietnam vets that got such a poor response when they returned home. Our town does do a Memorial Day parade in May and the Vietnam vets got a standing ovation from the entire crowd watching. It was very moving.

I will try to be there this year.

I doubt it. Not being disrespectful but having a small child around kind of makes it impossible to have even a second silence!