Memorial Day rememberances
These are the daughters of Timothy (Griz) Lynn Martin taken nearly four years ago on the 10th anniversary of his death in Mogadishu. If you saw the movie or read the book Black Hawk Down, you know Tim’s story and what happened to him there.
I’d known Tim nearly 19 years when he was killed (we met at the Reception Station, went through Basic, AIT, Basic Airborne School and Camp Mackall together) and I’d never met his family – but thanks to the internet, I found his wife who sent me most of the pictures that are posted at the link above.
This is from the year before, when I’d finally found him.
He was probably snickering his ass off seeing me slogging through the mud in the pourin’-ass rain looking for him. But I know he’d have done it for me.
Rosie O’Donnell calls our troops terrorists, Dick Durbin calls them SS Nazi camp guards, John Murtha calls them murderers, John Kerry says they’re too stupid to know better than to go to war, John Edwards wants to stand on their corpses so he can see above the crowd.
But there are folks who know the troops only as Dad or Mom, Honey, my Brother or my Sister and my Son or my Daughter. And, perhaps unfairly, those folks pay a higher cost for our personal freedom and peace than most people are willing to think about.
That’s why, on this Memorial Day, I want to add those who “also serve” as the families of servicemembers to my list of “thankees”.
There are more Memorial Day tributes at:
Hang Right Politics by COgirl and Big Mo
Sister Toldja (with more links)
The Anchoress (with more links)
Oh, Hell, most of the links in my Blogroll have stuff – check them all out!
Category: Society, Support the troops, Terror War
