Stan,
You made me start to cry.. I owe every minute of my freedom to men like you, God Bless you and your father too!
No, this is not a tribute to my father, but if it was ,I WOULD be so proud..
I witnessed a Military funeral with a rifle salute just a couple weeks after I buried my mother,... the emotion of losing a parent is so raw, as you know..the funeral planted the lyrical seed still, . and to lose a father in a war is so heartbreaking,, One woman wrote to me and shared a poem that many children of Nam soldier's share with each other, one line in it just puts this enormous lump in my throat, it is,

everybody say's I look just like you
who would ever think that you could grow up
to look like someone .. you never knew
Thanks again Stan, debdeb