RAMBLINGS

'Tis Sunday, 4 July, a day, a date, that is perhaps one of the most important anniversaries of all the anniversaries in the history of the planet.

Fireworks!!!

Dear Wife loves them.
I am somewhat less enchanted.

But Teddy Roosevelt loved them too...and he was a good judge of things.

And so there will be fireworks.

And good ones.

In the tiny village of Northport, Michigan, there is one fine display of pyrotechnics (sp?).
They appear, they actually are igniting over your head, but way, way up high.

And the oohs and the ahhs.

Dear Wife insists we go...and we take large or smaller groups.

And we have a good time.

The funeral of Dear Cousin yesterday was well done...
Pastor was inspirational.

Funeral preps were superb.

The assembly of family was most endearing, for many reasons.

And the United States Air Force rendered full military honors.

All this for a young veteran of 1941 who risked his life on 35 or so missions over Hitler's Germany.

And did it willingly.

And did it well.

And now he has died.

All known senior relatives are gone.

Thank you, Cathy, for your kind comments.

We returned North after services.

Sad times downstate.

But now Daughter and Son-in-Law have arrived, through horrendous traffic, and they and our two Dear Dogs are installed with us in The North.

The Blue Angels are performing over the Bay tomorrow, as they did today.

THE SOUND OF FREEDOM...

The United States Military.

As someone once said, military power is simply another arm of diplomatic power...
A most vital leg of the several faceted sides of national power.

God bless the United States Military...and may our Nation be on the side of Right...
As it usually is.