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Today is the day we pause to remember the millions of women and men who paid the ultimate price in defense of our country and liberty both at home and around the world.  Many who served did so in civilian clothes under conditions where they could not wear a uniform and whose names we may know.

Recently St. James dedicated a memorial to those who served in our Armed Forces.  When I located the brick bearing the name Col Charles E. Nicholas, USMC it was very hard to keep my emotions in check as I remembered my father and strangely enough, my mother. She too served  to keep the family together while my father was off in a foreign theater as did many other wives and mothers.  

President Abraham Lincoln closed his 2nd Inaugural address with the following words.  Let us strive to live them out today, tomorrow and always.

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

On a closing note, my time as editor of What's Up has come to an end.  I want to thank Carol Szot and the POA for the opportunity to serve as editor for the last two years.  

Save the Date - June 9th Beach Party