Why is it that we do not realize what folks have done for us until we get older?
Thanks to my great, great grandfather, 15th Massachusetts Volunteers, Civil War, Corporal Charles Gammage, wounded and captured by the South at the Battle of Ball's Bluff/Harrison's Island/Leesburg 1861.
My grandfather William Bryant, Sapper, Signals Corps, WWI, telephone cable runner from front line trenches to artillery batteries, decorated for bravery under heavy bombardment at Molincourt, France, 1917.
Raymond Lewis, my father, WWII, radio operator/top gunner, 1944, night time bombing of Rabaul, Japanese Pacific HQ from Goodenough Island, New Guinea.
Thanks to all who serve for doing what you do, and I do understand you do it for your children, born and unborn.