THANK YOU, MILITARY

I watched and listened to Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week.
He gave extended tribute to the United States military, and gave hope in the most convincing words.

I live close to Ft. Hood in Central Texas.
Army helicopters fly over every day—I stop to thank God and pray for them.
The Temple airport is about ten miles away, and the helicopters use it all the time.

I had a dramatic, emotional moment 34 years ago, at the end of a memorable ten-day canoe trip, 110 miles on the Wilderness Waterway through Everglades National Park, with my eleven-year-old son and two friends.
After no human contact the whole time, within hours of the end of our trip, we expected to find a road with our vehicle parked to take us home.
We were paddling silently along a ‘river’, a wide waterway with no current, when helicopters suddenly appeared overhead, seemingly out of nowhere.
I felt what it must have been like for our honorable armed forces to experience that in the jungle waterways of Vietnam.
And appreciation grew even more.

THANK YOU, MILITARY ! ! !