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Yesterday I attended a graduation party of my friend’s grandson, Chris. This was a trip back in time for me to the Summer of ‘68,’ where everything in my life prior was changing like a whirling dervish, a focus point in the middle of my life’s prism that was ready to explode out of the other side in a wide sweeping spectrum of light into the world beyond. High school to the US Navy, innocence to the real world, crushes into real love, and the unlimited possibilities of the future.
Many of you over there have went through these changes that seem to take no time before you are gone and out of high school, and then find yourself over there engaged in your daily struggle to survive and to prevail. Chris is now at that point that we have experienced, as he celebrated his new found freedom of adulthood unbeknownst to him what the next day will bring. His Summer of ‘2009’ is filled with hope, and he is lucky to have a summer love that can share it with him. Summer Loves back home are the subject of letters from over there every day, sometimes summer loves are lost, sometimes they last a lifetime. Either way, that Summer Love from that last summer before the real world will never be forgotten … I am now toasting all of the Summer Loves of 2009! May you never part…
Your mission as has been the mission of all before you, is making sure Chris and others do not have to follow your footsteps into that world of war … may this be the last war fought. May all who have sacrificed rest in peace and we can finally declare the mission is complete. This is the dream, but we all know that many will still fight for their buddies, and go to war for their country. If only that last summer could last forever, so would we!
Summer Lovers
Chris and Brit
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Sports update:
To the point, the Pittsburgh Pirates … still playing, but not much more.
But, the Pittsburgh Penguins are still the World Champions and caretakers of the Stanley Cup, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are still the World Champions and owners of their six Super Bowl Trophies!!!
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Keep your head down,
Henry Hill, Plum Pennsylvania
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