"jmcquown" > wrote in
:


>
>
> Thank you. That's beautiful. Fortunately, they don't ask you to
> speak at military funerals.


Hmmmm, must be a US custom.


> And my mother will be cremated and buried
> alongside my father at Beaufort National Cemetery.


Where is he? Did I miss him?

http://www.interment.net/data/us/sc/...index_mcme.htm


>Of course she
> won't have the 21-gun salute but she'll have a honor guard.


That's a lot more than Army wives are afforded here.


> except when she let
> me wear velvet in the 1970's LOL


Velvet was *in* then!!




Think of all the happy times.




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

"As viscous as motor oil swirled in a swamp, redolent of burnt bell peppers
nested in by incontinent mice and a finish reminiscent of the dregs of a
stale can of Coca-Cola that someone has been using as an ashtray. Not a bad
drink, though."
Excerpt from "The Moose Turd Wine Tasting" by T. A. Nonymous