And all we can do is remember...

We had a great long weekend.  I'm still gathering my lack of pictures for hopefully a tomorrow post of our travels and family time.

But until then,
this is a video of Caleb's deployment in 2011-2012.  If you dont have the time to watch the whole thing, skip to 8:30 on the video and watch the memorials of the men lost on this deployment.  Thinking of all the families that didn't get to experience the homecoming at the end of the clip like I did.  It is an experience i'll never forget and am forever grateful for all the sacrifices all of our service men and women make.

"It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives -- the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for our country, for us. And all we can do is remember."   -Ronald Reagan