Military Warriors

Just posted a picture of the Orange flag ceremony in Orange California. I missed posting my text with the picture so bear with me. The lowering of the flag happens every Wednesday evening at dusk. A friend of mine, Mark Walen heads the ceremony because the city was going to discontinue because of budget cuts. Mark is a retired Orange fireman who also at the age of fifty became the first firefighter para medic to join the Orange SWAT team, going in with them armed on calls. He's also an ex-Marine Vietnam Veteran and a close friend of many years. Unfortunately he's absent in the picture but both Pat, Dennis and I are there. Yea, I know it's hard to believe I actually have Marine friends. I try to make this ceremony every Wednesday I'm in town. Pat Noonan has been attending with me along with my brother-in-law Dennis. Again I know it's hard for my Airborne buddies to understand but both Pat and I have developed a tolerance, (in our old age), for associating with "legs".