I truly missed the emails from John Odom who passed last year and had served in the US Navy, and thanked his fellow veterans every Memorial Day and July 4th. Friday we fought the mosquitos on our pier as we watched the fireworks. The sounds took me back to my days at Fort Sill, where I did my basic combat training. It was after this summer of riding in combat tanks, shooting off big artillery pieces, and checking for tarantulas and poisons snakes in my bedroll that I decided jumping out of planes would be safer, and signed up to become an Airborne Ranger. I can hear John’s laugh as I tell him this story, “You’re crazy Baun”! God bless all that serve our country in so many different ways.
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