As a young boy growing up in the south, sports was a part of my life, either playing sports or watching on the tube. I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the teamwork and the comraderie of friends in sports if it wasn’t for the men and women of our great military fighting for our freedom here in this great country of the United States of America that I call home.
I am so proud to come from a military family where both of my grandfathers were in the military, maternal grandfather in the Army and my paternal grandfather in the Air Force. My father is also retired from the Air Force. Both of my grandfathers have passed away now, but the legacy that they have left behind is unmeasurable. My grandfather in the Army fought in World War II and my grandfather in the Air Force fought both in World War II and the Korean War. My grandfather who wound up in the Air Force, was in the Army Air Corp and was on one of the boats that landed on the beaches of Normandy. While in the Korean War, he got frost bite in both feet, and as long as I knew my grandfather he could never feel his feet. It could be 90 degrees outside and he would have a space heater at his feet. My father while in the Air Force, had tours of duty in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany, but was never in war time.
As we remember this Veteran’s Day 2019, I can’t help but think of both my grandfathers and my father, and all the other great men and women of our military for protecting our country so I can write about the sports that I love, and these athletes that have this God given ability to be gladiators and play these sports
HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!!
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