*July 8th 1966  I slept outdoors in my big green cotton sleeping bag
with jump'n deer printed on the red flannel...

It had been a long but *special night.. and I was happy to lay out under
the stars of a California night among the manzinita and Pinetrees...

I had met the challenge, and been tested... and I drifted off to sleep
in *Love with the Men who stood guard over me just a short distance away<G>

I didn't know what the morning would bring.. and when it came, the special
feeling had not left<G>

30 years later-

I spent another night outdoors, under the same stars for a Wilderness Vigil..

I didn't sleep that night- but prayed for the men that stood guard over me
and
my family in camp.  I prayed for my Outpost and church, for boys that had
come
and left and the *missing in action..

some things change and some remain the same, and the world goes on...
...but we tend our fires,  so the light will shine.

-=A=-
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