Here's Ms. Patsy and a few of the boys from Bridges Academy. Today almost the entire student body walked the few blocks to Montana Avenue to attend the El Paso Heroes Parade: welcoming back the soldiers returning to Fort Bliss. We made posters, we held banners, we waved flags. Hundreds of men and women in uniform marched by and we cheered and shouted our support.
The only thing missing (truly) was a few marching bands-- that would have added a lot.
However, there was one small group of soldiers- about twenty musicians - and they did play. They were followed by upwards of thirty riderless horses led by soldiers (boots in the stirrups backwards) in memory of the fallen. Our own Fort Bliss soldiers killed in combat.
Other than that it's been a busy few weeks since I last wrote.
Dan is off on vacation. I didn't talk to him before he left. I'm hoping to get a full report when he returns. How nice it will be for him to escape the nasty winter weather in Baltimore in exhange for the sunny climes of the Caribbean (sp?).
I'm tired. And I just wanted to share these photos with ya'll.
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