...opening exhibit.  This is exciting!  This is an important time for the world to see what our heros are doing for history.  I will focus my energies on these paintings and finish by end of April.  If Military Love has more photos and more stories, I want them.  This is an important story to tell and I want to tell it properly.  I would also like to include portraits of the service persons in action...

Bryan's best birthday present came from the Army. It actually had nothing to do with his birthday, but the timing coincided nicely. He is NOT deploying!!!!! In a nutshell, he has been assigned to another...note, we seem to have gotten more rain than snow out of this latest storm system. Jerseychick I'm pretty sure has been completely snowed in. We, on the other hand, got only a couple of inches of snow

...act like a jackass.  It's scheduled for the theoretical halfway point of the patrol (not counting extensions or whatever). Well, tonight is the Halfway Night of my career.  Today, I hit 10 years of military service; halfway to the minimum for retirement (though, like the real Halfway Night, this does not take into account possible extensions).  It's amazing how quick it's gone. So, tonight, toss...

...  To some it is a day off of school, to some it is the very meaning of their being, and to some it is a memory of loved ones lost to war.  Today, living in Angola has opened my eyes in regards to military.  Also, personally knowing people, friends, that have gone away to war.  People that I have grown up with and gone to school with.  It puts a different aspect on 'war', it makes it personal. ...

... Can it indeed be held back when we see images of wounded women and children crying in agony as they lie sprawled in blood-stained mud? Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip was the most intense military action in the area since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. For many Palestinians it was the worst attack in living memory. Over 275 people are reported killed, nearly 1,000 injured in the aerial strikes...