Life Reminders
I’m so glad I have friends who send me stuff that make me snap out of my little pity parties and realize how spoiled I am. Life is good at the Jones house. I thank God for each day and the blessings that have poured down on me.
Thanks to Randy Overton aka “RORO” for the following wake-up call:
Here are two very touching photos honored at this year’s International Picture of the Year
First Place:
Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
When 2nd Lt James Cathey’s body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as the passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac.
During the arrival of another Marine’s casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as so powerful: “See the people in the windows? They sat right there in the plane, watching those Marines You gotta wonder what’s going through their minds, knowing that they’re on the plane that brought him home,” he said. “They will remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They’re going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should.”
Second Place
Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
The night before the burial of her husband’s body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of ‘Cat,’ and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. “I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,” she said. “I think that’s what he would have wanted.”
“No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men everywhere.” – Ronald Reagan
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