Raise your glasses high! - 11/11/11 - Salute our Veterans

Have you ever witnessed seventy year old men fall weeping into each others arms when reunited after spending only a year together when they were very young men in the military?  If so you might have caught a glimmer of the noble bond that unites veterans.

I am still experiencing a link to all veterans both living and deceased.  Below is a ritual that I will not bother to explain:

Raise your glasses high!

Here is to Staff Sergeant John Thomas Schmidt who spent not one but two tours of duty with the 5^th Counter Intelligence Team of the United States Marine Corps in Viet Nam.