4th of July - At Home & Over There

The reports from the homefront today were as expected - The 4th of July went off as planned with parades, cookouts, festivities, fireworks and the Boston Pops played on the Esplanade for hundreds of thousands cheering 235 years of our Nation's Independence....

Meanwhile, the effort to fight those who would terrorize the innocent went on as usual also....While those back home enjoyed a summer ritual of cookouts and family get-togethers, brave men & women stood the watch in places far from home....

Brings to mind a quote from Lt. Galloway in the movie " A Few Good Men"

Lt. Weinberg: Why do you like them so much?

Galloway: Because they stand upon a wall and say, "Nothing's going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch."

Nature's Fireworks....A Heavenly Display

The fireworks we get here in AFGHN run in two distinct varieties...There are the type that no one likes....Incoming Fire sent by the miscreants that are trying to destablize the Government and kill innocents.....Not what you want see....

Then there are the ones everyone likes.....The brilliant tapestry of the night sky at a FOB where there is no artificial light to mar the beauty that God has made across the heavens.....I have been to a few of these "Black" FOBs where there are no lights allowed at night, mainly for security.

Take a good luck at the enclosed photo - It was taken at a camp near Marjah....click on it and marvel at what you can see when you get away from civilization.....Take in the beauty that most of us never get to see often enough....

Like I've said, there aren't too many extras out here, but this is one of them.