Happy Memorial Day

Today's a day where we're to remember our fallen soldiers and loved ones no longer with us. I can't help but think of my dad, who served in the Korean war. I lost him 6 months ago this coming Wednesday. And now we are going to lose his sister as well, probably within the next few days. (That's my dad's first cousin--his best bud--one year before my dad, the cousin's mother six months before my dad, and now my dad's sister six months after him. Enough already!)

All I can think of are the words to Taps, written by Major General Daniel Butterfield:

Day is done...
Gone the sun
From the lake...
From the hills...
From the sky.
All is well...
Safely rest
God is nigh.

Fading light....
Dims the sight
And a star....
Gems the sky....
Gleaming bright
From afar....
Drawing nigh
Falls the night.
'Night, Dad.

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"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." ~Eleanor Roosevelt