Saturday, June 26, 2010

Between homes...again

See this big moving truck? 

Yeah, we filled up about half of it.  Which might not sound too bad for some of you out there.  But once upon a time, Stretch and I only needed a half-day pack-out and another half-day to load the truck.  Those days are long gone!

For the past 2 moves, we've needed 2 days to pack us out (that's the pros doing the packing, not us!) and another day for them to load the truck like a giant game of Tetris.    I was informed by Stretch that "we're packing too much, Troop!"


Our girls have been on vacation during this process.  (Does that make us their PCS fairies?).  We took our girls to Stretch's parents in another state before the packers arrived.  There were no little hands digging into boxes as they were being packed and pulling things out.  Plus, they get to have lots of fun with one of their cousins and their grand-parents.  From the sounds of it, they are having a great time, with every day being a field trip day!  As you can see, Devil Pup approves!


Thursday, June 03, 2010

Perspective

I found this over at The Lemon Stand.  In part, she wrote:

"Revolutionary War Dead  ............ 25,000
War of 1812 Dead  .................... 20,000
Indian Wars Dead  ...................... 1,500
Mexican-American War Dead  ........ 13,283
Civil War Dead  ....................... 625,000
Spanish-American War Dead  .......... 2,446
Philipine-American War Dead  ........ 4,196
WWI Dead  ............................ 116,516
WWII Dead  ........................... 405,399
Korean War Dead  ..................... 53,686
Vietnam War Dead  ................... 58,209
Beirut deployment Dead  ................. 266
Gulf War Dead  ............................ 382
Iraq War Dead  .......................... 4,404
Afghanistan War Dead  ................. 1,087
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                                                  1,331,374

According to the Department of Defense there are approximately 3 million Military Service Members both Active Duty and Reserve serving today. According to the Census Bureau web site there are approximately 310 million people living in the United States. Which, if you calculate the percentages, approximately 1% of the population protects the rest of us on a daily basis."