I received a very nice surprise yesterday when I was eating my lunch. My
Favorite Panamanian called to say the FBR really wanted to talk with me and
asked if I could FaceTime with her. I put down my lunch time read and immediately
contacted my precocious young granddaughter. She and Wingman were enjoying their
own lunch and my heart did its usual beat skip when the FBR was so happy to see
me. She’s turning into quite the conversationalist.
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| The Re-Definer |
Over the course of our lunch time talk we somehow got onto the subject of
my military career. I think I said, “When I was in the Army” as a way of explaining
all the different places I’d lived. She innocently asked “What’s the Army?” and
as I tried to explain that to her she asked, “What’s a Soldier?”. I did my limited
best to describe that in age appropriate terms. I finished by saying Soldiers
are responsible for protecting the country. She considered that for a beat and
then said, “It sounds very important”. I
think at that moment my military career meant more to me that at any other
time. Out of the mouths of babes. Indeed.
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| One of my Favorite Pictures |
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RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BR3
– granddaughter #3, BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel - second
granddaughter; FBR - First Blog Reader
- first granddaughter, ABFA – Amazing
Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College
Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; PanaGals
– female relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member, Favorite Panamanian - the
wife (of course); First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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