The purpose of Mr. Dickie's Blog is to provide a place where I can post quotations I like and write about things that are on my mind. As of the summer of 2011 I have NetworkedBlogs posting a link to this blog to Facebook.
On July 4, 2008 I posted a piece remembering two of my fallen Army comrades on my Obituary blog. It's fitting on this Memorial Day weekend to once again pay tribute to their military service and sacrifice.
The first time a memory slides over us like a wave of warmth, we have turned the corner on our grief. When a once painful reminder evokes a gentle laugh, when we recognize the joy of the present in an image from the past, we have arrived at an important moment. Those memories are being transformed, unmistakably, into messages of hope. (Molly Fumia, Safe Passage, Day 154) (Memorial [Decoration] Day) 30 May 2011)
I have been retired from the U.S. government for many years. I was a long time paying member of AOL until May 2009. Until October 2008 I had a fairly extensive genealogy website on AOL. They dropped support.
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