Happy Thanksgiving
For those who have lost loved ones, friends, and colleagues this week and this year; we can be thankful for having shared their lives and can be thankful that through Christ we will see them again.
Today I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
This is such a special time of year for most of us who will enjoy seeing friends and family, old and new. We are truly blessed to live in such a great community and nation. As I write this my son and his new wife are on their way from U.S. Coast Guard Station Charleston to spend part of their holiday with me and Melissa and then we will travel to my Mother’s home in middle Georgia.
As we enjoy our friends and family, I encourage everyone to remember all of those who may not have the same resources. In a country so bountiful we still are surrounded by those in need; those who through unfortunate decisions or through no fault of their own have found themselves in situations less fortunate than ours.
For those who have lost loved ones, friends, and colleagues this week and this year; we can be thankful for having shared their lives and can be thankful that through Christ we will see them again.
I also want to give thanks and prayers for our first responders; here, across our nation, and abroad. Those who will be on duty tomorrow; who run towards danger instead of away. I pray for all the great patriots who are and the veterans who have been “on point” somewhere in our world, in places we know of and those we don’t, who are currently serving and have served in our great military.
Having been deployed in combat zones during this special time of year I know first-hand the loneliness that they endure. One of my greatest honors as a U.S. Army Officer with the 122d Operations Center (Theater Support Command) was serving a Thanksgiving meal to our great enlisted personnel while deployed to Mosul, Ninawa Province, Iraq and taking meals to those “on point” in the guard towers surrounding our base; and getting to serve twice as we moved to Baghdad International Airport that same day.
Please be safe if you are traveling and enjoy this year's Thanksgiving to the fullest. Like all our days as we get older; tomorrow too will too soon pass.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Mike & Melissa