I have always felt an enormous amount of gratitude towards the members of our Armed Forces. I see Soldiers...Marines...any member, and I just get so overwhelmed with gratitude that I literally start tearing up. I have no idea why. I've always been that way. I've also always been afraid to say anything to them for fear of bursting out crying and upsetting them. And now...with Mike being in the Army and me being on the verge of bawling at a moments notice anyway? I can't even imagine an encounter that doesn't involve me apologizing for my crying.
I was in Norfolk, VA one time that my brother's ship (USS Eisenhower) was coming back from the Persian Gulf about 15 years ago...and from the moment you could see the Sailors on the rails to the minute I went back to get on my train to go home...I was just smiling like a loon with tears leaking out of my head. Maybe I'm nuts. Or maybe I just don't go out of my way enough to thank people who deserve it and it's all built up inside like a pressure cooker? I vote for the latter (who wants to admit to being nuts?? LOL )
I saw this on goarmyparents.com and it looks like something I could do without totally embarrassing anyone (especially me). I tried to download it so I could play it from my own server and not use their bandwidth, but the download was an .exe file and I'm all Mac baby! Those just don't work here. So even though they have it in a Mac native format, Quicktime, I just can't view it here. I'll have to send you all to their site directly.
When you get a few minutes, check this video out about expressing gratitude to our members of the Armed Forces....it's worth it.
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