Memorial Day and Love Forever

Today, we took off on a journey of remembrance. Memorial Day 2008 seemed like a good day to embark on this trip down the memory road of love. Today’s trip down the memory road of love brought forth an avalanche of thoughts about the meaning of love – particularly about love on such a sacred day as Memorial Day.

Charley’s Uncle Verney was a war hero. He fought in World War II, participated in the liberation of Paris, and was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. Frankly, that fateful day changed Verney’s life forever. He took a machine-gun shell through his thigh. Miraculously, someone drug him to the cellar of an abandoned farm house where he nursed his wound by himself for nearly a week. Before his death, Uncle Verney recounted many times how good he felt the day he was saved by an American Medic.

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