Okla-homey
8/16/2009, 07:19 PM
paid by one small southern college.
While in SC visiting the esposita's remaining family, we made a trip to Charleston. Each time we go to Charleston, we visit the small chapel where we were married in the late Neolithic era (5/16/1982), on the campus of the small state college that actually conferred a degree on Yours Truly way back on the day before we were married.
This trip, we were struck by a sight that pretty much sums up the effects, in very real terms to us at least, of the post-9/11 world we all inhabit. Immediately below, is a mobile phone photo I took of the bronze plaque memorializing the college's war dead.
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6638/photo3mqf.jpg
The second photo depicts brief actions in which at least one alum paid the ultimate price for his country. It also includes a few men who died of wounds sustained in the war depicted after the main plaque was prepared for that particular contingency.
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8244/photo4ybh.jpg
The last photo speaks volumes. It lists the alums who have been KIA since 9/11, while at the same time indicating by its lack of permanence, there will be more. May God Bless their loved ones. Each man was a son, brother and/or father to someone.
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1348/photo2ndm.jpg
While in SC visiting the esposita's remaining family, we made a trip to Charleston. Each time we go to Charleston, we visit the small chapel where we were married in the late Neolithic era (5/16/1982), on the campus of the small state college that actually conferred a degree on Yours Truly way back on the day before we were married.
This trip, we were struck by a sight that pretty much sums up the effects, in very real terms to us at least, of the post-9/11 world we all inhabit. Immediately below, is a mobile phone photo I took of the bronze plaque memorializing the college's war dead.
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6638/photo3mqf.jpg
The second photo depicts brief actions in which at least one alum paid the ultimate price for his country. It also includes a few men who died of wounds sustained in the war depicted after the main plaque was prepared for that particular contingency.
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8244/photo4ybh.jpg
The last photo speaks volumes. It lists the alums who have been KIA since 9/11, while at the same time indicating by its lack of permanence, there will be more. May God Bless their loved ones. Each man was a son, brother and/or father to someone.
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1348/photo2ndm.jpg