Veterans Day Report from Gautier Mississippi

Today is Veterans Day. I took most of the day off. As I walked to breakfast folks in our tent city were erecting a flag pole and we had our own kind of Iwo Jima flag raising.

The veterans I'm thinking about today. The homeless man, so terribly confused, that I called 911 on last night when Rick and I took him to Gulfport and the Red Cross couldn't shelter him. General Jimmy Doolittle. Major Jack Carne. Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, Lieutenant Colonel Jessie Britt. Chief Warrant Officer 4 Henry Carter. Brigadier General John Carter, Sr. Master Sergeant Bob "Grandpa" Boyd, who died in his easy chair reading his Bible. Also, Captain Roy Gordon. Sergeant Paul Ford. Specialist 4 Warren Ford. Lieutenant Colonel Ed Kosakoski. All the guys I flew with. Those great guys I went to the Gulf with. God bless you all.

We got word from church that our budget is looking pretty good and we'll be able to help a bit more than we'd hoped. That's great news! Thanks, everybody back in Salem.

Mary did a super potato bake dinner. Easy on our budget and it went over great! Went to the FEMA information center and the guard just about jumped down my throat...he'd been told to prevent photographing. Gee...is the Constitution suspended in this part of Mississippi? While there we came up with a Medicare strategy to help a Navy widow get by as our volunteers worked on her house.