Thank you for remembering.Thank you for serving our country, especially in Viet Nam. It's unfortunate that our nation didn't back the soldiers of that war like we should have.
The treatment of soldiers returning from that duty was shameful. I try to be always Christ-like but to this day when I hear anything or read anything about Jane Fonda I have to grit my teeth and pray. I was not in a combat unit, but my signal company lost four men to the Viet Cong during our tour of duty. Two of them I knew personally. One of them attended signal school in Ft Monmouth NJ in the same classroom with me for 35 weeks immediately before receiving orders for Viet Nam. He was only 20 years old. I can never forget the faces of those two who came home to their families in body bags.
Again I was with a signal company just outside of Santo Domingo for my 6 month tour there. It was another one of our country's mistakes overshadowed I guess at the time by Viet Nam. When we used to drive through the city in the back of an open truck in order to get a hot meal and a warm shower, there was one neighborhood where the people always threw rocks at us. But... most of the people we met face to face were very kind to us even though they wished we were not there. I learned both at home and aborad what it was to be an ugly American.When I was a public school teacher, I had a student from the Dominican Republic. He was the sweetest 8th grader I ever had. (Many of my 8th grade students were not sweet at all.) I've wondered what ever happened to him. Of course, that was a long time ago.
Thanks for the concern.How is your wife doing? I had read on the prayer thread a while back that she needed prayer.
Just a bit less than an hour ago we got home from the ER. Since she had the blood clot two years ago she is supposed to go into an ER any and every time she has chest pain. This was the case but the doctor says it appears to be an inflammation in her chest due to her recent bout with pneumonia. Nevertheless they took every kind of test possible to rule out the other worse possibilities.
They gave her a shot for the pain and a prescription. While there they put a needle into her hand so as to attached an IV if necessary. When they took out of the room for a CT scan the thing caused the blood in the back of her hand to blow. Now her left hand and arm nearly to the elbow are swollen twice the size of her other hand and arm. Other than that I would say she is OK. The pain in her chest has lessened considerably. She has a heating pad on her hand and arm. In addition to praying for my wife, please also pray that I remain calm instead of getting angry about her hand and arm.
I guess that when it rains it pours.