Veterans’ Day 2016 My Dad was a Navy veteran. He enlisted as a young man and was stationed in the Pacific. He, promptly, got terrified on an aircraft carrier during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When his tour of duty was up, he left the service. He reenlisted in the Navy when I was […]
Veterans’ Day 2015
When thinking of those who served in the military, I am humbled. I cannot imagine what it was like to experience what they went through. Sure, we have journalistic images and war movies that give us the sights and sounds of combat, but that’s not like having your own boots on the ground. Because […]
Veterans’ Day
November 11, 2013 For some odd reason, perhaps it’s a quirk in our human nature that we cannot co-exist without aggression and warfare. The tale is as old as human history. And to paraphrase Mark Twain: the only progress we’ve made is that we kill each other more efficiently! Unfortunately, there will always be soldiers […]
Sgt. Laguna: “letters made us feel…loved.”
Veterans’ Day November11, 2011 Approximately 22% of the workforce in the USPS are veterans. It was an easy task to ask a veteran how valuable letters are to a soldier away from home. Letter Carrier, Leslie Laguna is a veteran from the 1991 Desert Storm campaign. Sergeant Laguna was deployed to Saudi Arabia as an […]
“Give your write arm to pen and paper” (letters to soldiers)
November 11, 2010… Veterans’ Day How much thought do most of us give to the war in Afghanistan? Unless we know someone serving in the armed forces, it probably doesn’t cross our minds much. I don’t recall “war” being an issue in this last American election! Why was that? Although I personally don’t feel that […]