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"A Soldier's Girl"

She patiently waits for his safe return home and
sometimes not so patiently....
Although her duty is to support and understand,
it is hard to envision his daily life fighting valiantly
in a far away land so different from her own.
Nonetheless, he has her undying support, love and respect.
When she goes to close her eyes for the night she prays:
“Dear Lord...
Please keep him focused, healthy, strong and alert to
preservere and... Read More

Patriot Guard Riders…Ride Again.   The phone rings in the middle of the night and there is that gut-wrenching feeling that something is devastatingly, wrong. No one calls our house past the bewitching hour of 9 p.m., so I don’t have to possess psychic abilities to know when something terrible has happened. So, I cannot imagine experiencing the terror of a child of mine, fighting the perils of war in Iraq and that constant knot in my stomach every time the phone rings or I hear a car doo... Read More

Iron Nation’s 5th Annual Never Forget 9-11 Memorial Run, Reno, California   I don’t want this article to be about me, but in order for you to understand some of the emotional moments I experienced during the day, you have to have a little background on a leave of absence I took back in January 2006.   I was completely bedridden because of what could be only be described as temporal lobe brain damage on both sides of the brain, causing seizures, amnesia and a myriad of symptoms an... Read More

A Visitor from the Past   I had a dream the other night, I did not understand
A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand
His clothes were torn and dirty;
As he stood their by my bed, he took off his three cornered hat
And speaking low, he said, We fought a revolution to secure our Liberty
We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny
For future generations this legacy we gave
In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave The... Read More