A powerful message found on Face Book, this morning

[Siwsan]

5. My Dad was a Marine. He was in President Truman's Honor Guard

Two of my uncles were WWII combat veterans. Uncle Ray was in the Battle of the Bulge. Uncle John joined the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor and served in the Pacific. He had two ships, that he was on, hit. One by a torpedo. One by a Kamikazi. His best friend basically exploded, right next to him. Another uncle was a flight instructor in England. He wasn't in direct combat but part of his duties was to clean out the returned, hit planes of the bodies of those who didn't survive. Some weren't in one piece. Then there's my great uncle who served in WWI. I don't consider any of them to be suckers or losers.

My nephew is an Air Force vet. Definitely not a sucker or a loser. I'm a Navy vet. The only female veteran in the history of my family. I leave it to others to judge my value.