Tuesday morning lies outside my front door. The daylight not yet arriving but it waits just behind the still dark sky. I am hopeful for a beautiful day as the weather has been gorgeous. These prefall days are wonderful. It still is warm in the afternoons but not the stifling heat we experienced for weeks. Fall is coming soon with its beautiful colors that will paint the trees. I am ready and waiting.
I feel like I should be out in the front yard waving a flag, shouting welcome home to our areas own 203rd Battalion. Two of our people were killed while they were gone. Two young lives who didn't return to a hero's welcome. There is nothing sensible or good about war. Has never been or will ever be.
When this war started several years ago we had not lived in this house very long. The neighbors had not yet gotten use to my strangeness. Not that they have after five years. Anyway I went out with a chair and a bolt of yellow ribbon. I reached as high as I could standing on the chair and tied yellow ribbons on both trees. My beloved Saul and Sarah. Then I tied ribbons all along the front fence. It seemed such a small thing to do for our young men and women who went away into a foreign land and endured the horrors of war. Now they are slowly coming back home. Remnants of the ribbons still cling to the branches. Faded with from sun and rain. Now we all will expect them to pick up where they left off. Back before they saw their friends die and had to be responsible for taking an others life in return.
I wonder how many of us really gave them much thought after the first few months. We gripe about our leadership, we gripe about our taxes. We do this as young men and women struggled in the heat, amidst fire bombs, hatred and loneliness. Shame on us all. I know nobody in the 203rd Battalion will read this. But I still want to say Thank-you, each and everyone. And as you go about trying to put your life back together please know that you were standing up for our country and the freedom we enjoy. May God make this transition easy for each of you. May you be welcomed back as you should be, as hero's.
Well I got that off my chest.. Sometimes its handy to have this Blog. Nobody can shut me up when I voice my opinion. I am smiling. I am sure there are those who would if they could.. Once again Thanks 203rd. I will take my flag I proudly wave for I have that right here in our great country. And I will stroll causally out of Blogland. Hooray for the Red, White and Blue. But for now, I'm outta here.
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