People who don’t know me well often ask what sort of celebrating I’ll be doing over the Memorial Day holiday. I used to be like most of America, planning a barbecue or a weekend laughing at the lake with little or no thought about what the holiday really meant – it was totally valued time off.
Then on October 6, 2011 my family’s world changed when my son and proud Marine Scout Sniper, LCpl Benjamin Whetstone Schmidt was killed in Musa Qala District in the Helmand Province of Afghan…
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin
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