re: #5 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Oh, is my screed about grandpa inappropriate then?

To me— we lost him when I was very young because of his health being ruined in the war, and parts of him never really came home.

Please accept my apology - it’s not inappropriate. I just get tired of being “thanked” for my peace time service - Germany in the 1980’s was a playground really - and so I’d rather people remember those who gave much more than I ever had to. Your grandfather certainly qualifies as do so many others.

Still today started as Decoration Day to honor the dead of the American Civil War and it’s always the dead I think of first.