Peace Out Veterans and Thank you

I believe I could get used to long weekends. We had (bummer - past tense) a four day weekend in honor of our American Veterans.

Thank you for the week end to be sure. But mostly, Thank you for your service - your time. Peace be with you.

I am not exactly pro-war preferring we strive for world peace, and this too is generally (har har) is the overall ambition of those who do serve our county in the military.

Don't believe me, just engage a veteran in conversation. They're all for world peace - it's the reason many got into the military to begin with.

I'm a peace-lovin' person and do so wish we could settle our world problems with multi-flavor ice-cream instead of weapons of mass destruction.

Peace out my friends and dig in.

There's plenty of ice-cream and all the toppings one could wish, even if you just want to gobble up the toppings with a splash of whip cream sans the ice-cream. Of course there are big mouth spoons too.

But that's just an idea for world peace negotiations. I'm sure there are plenty more peaceful ideas.

I don't say these things to dis-serve the men and women who serve or have served our country in the past, today or in the future. On the contrary, I am in support of the veteran's and to those that have served our country I am grateful. I am also thankful to those soldiers who serve today. (I do have my reservations about the commander-in-chief)

Wish you could go home due to world peace but i know that's not the case.

Last weekend, I met a man who served in WWII.

He claimed that there are no heroes and was very upset about McCain's using his military status as former POW to elicit votes. He is now a self-professed former Republican. He's also not for the war we're in now. He believes we were brought into it for oil and big business money.

This veteran was my son's age, 15, when he chose to lie about his age and enlist during the last world war.

I can not fathom my son making such a decision. The thought actually scares me like nothing else can - except my daughter enlisting.

She's signed on going through Air Force ROTC while she's working on her college degree.

So now, you just may see me with my long hair wearing peace beads, Birkenstock sandles and rose colored glasses (I like the way they make the the colors pop) while I climb into my minivan and wonder why I have no bumper stickers. Dad said they mess up the car.

I didn't have any political bumper stickers either although I wanted to but I just don't put bumper stickers on my car. "Times they are a changing" though, as Bob Dylan once wrote and sang about a previos war. I may have to post my views.

I'd have a large peace sign and the bumper sticker that says "my daughter's in the Air Force".

This doesn't make me an oxymoron. Nor does it mean that I don't support my daughter, I do.

It just means I now pray even harder for world peace.