November 2013

Like many veterans, I have a list of dates that are important to me.  They come and go with regularity throughout the year and rarely do they coincide with designated "holidays" like Veteran's Day.  There are the normal ones, like birthdays and my anniversary, and then there are the others. 14 February:  The day Teddy and Nes were killed when their huey went down. 23 March:  An Nasiriyah. 22 July:  The day I learned James had been killed in Afghanistan. 7 August:  The day my younger brother crashed in Afghanistan. And others. I mark the passing of each of these [...]