Memorial Day 2012

Here's a link to a song I wrote about growing up during Vietnam, being too young to be drafted and being too old later on for the next wars. I was lucky to be able to go to college and obtain the American dream that so many died for our freedom to pursue. The Vietnam conflict officially ended in 1975 and I started college in 1976. My children, 25 and 22, also did not enter military service and spared us the fear of losing a child in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts as many American families have experienced.
  Today we offered our prayers in  morning Mass for the souls of all those lost in our armed conflicts and their families.