...Friday evening,...sitting on my covered patio smoking a Java Maduro cigar, sipping a bottle of Guinness Extra Stout.
Watching the season's first firefly's flashing their rears at me along the tree line on the bank of Walnut creek and my 2 & a half acres.
Overcast evening, another storm moving in on what has proved to be an exceptionally wet Spring in Oklahoma.
Wind has shifted to the North, temperature dropped rapidly, lightning flashing. Rain just starting.

My personal thanks to ANY of those who have served this nation as a man at arms. All gave some, some gave all.

I pause, and I remember, and I honor their service.