Memorial Day Greetings
It would be so easy to keep this day on the family, friends and gentle reminiscence level. It has been a good weekend. We've enjoyed a fine family bar-b-que and the almost required family croquet game (where there is no such thing as family loyalty). We've spent time with children and grandchildren, enjoyed a little exercise and some extraordinary weather. I've even had some, "down" time to read and watch some truly exemplary Civil War history programs on History International. I've thanked every one of the veterans that I know for their service (starting with my husband). So it's been a good day, a gentle day, a day that far too many people didn't get a chance to share due to circumstances beyond their control. It is a good day to be an American. Of course, I wouldn't be an American if my ancestors had not chosen to come here. In 1635 Ralph Blaisdell, his wife, Elizabeth and son, Henry, landed off Pemaquid Point, Maine just as the Gre