Another Day at the Office

This past Sunday, Ann, the Music Director where I attend church included a short video that expressed thanks to the veterans of our country. This touched my heart, as it has always done in the six decades since my active duty time in the United States Air Force (1954-58). And, as it has done time after time in those years, it has given me pause to reflect on my enlistment time. Just what had I done worthy of thanks? I expressed this reservation to Ann, and further explained that it was because I’d served at a time when our world was relatively quiet. “The Korean conflict had hit a pause and we’d not yet heard of Viet Nam. I was trained as a gunner, but there were no hostile situations going on. Therefore, while I did lots of gunnery stuff, it was all practice.”