Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The Fight to Capture the Flags
When Mark left home for the U.S.Navy it was really a shock to my system. He and I had always been close and I missed him so. I was so glad that he was a writer of letters and that they came regularly. They were addressed to our whole family, and his Dad and brothers always read them, but since I was...
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Monday, July 4, 2022
Mark G. Stone Alias Ribcage
May 1982 It came as a total surprise to us that our oldest son had joined the US Navy without our knowledge. He was old enough that permission was not needed from his parents. He had never talked about Military Service. When he told us, we did not have much time to get used to the idea before he was...
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How Can One Not?
4th of July and I have been playing marches and patriotic songs all morning. I love them at any time but Independence Day how can one not? Remembering Son Mark, and Grandsons Peter and Michael their stints in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, and U.S. Army. It has made me so miss Ribcage (son Mark) that...
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Sunday, July 3, 2022
Happy Sunday Morning
For some reason I woke up this cloudy damp day with a stiff neck that I cannot turn my head right or left without it hurting so I'm walking and standing like a zombie as I make coffee and heating a cornbag to put on my neck for relief. Fortunately Sis made me two of them at different times so I can...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
What Makes Them Do That?
The day is gorgeous--a cloudless sky blue as all get-out, the trees and grasses every shade of green, flowers of every kind, birds busy with the things that birds do, the temperature just right at the moment, and in the parking lot a car is doing that thing they do every now and then....all the...
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