Bugles Across America

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Bugler ~ Sergeant Robert (Bob) McDonald, United States Army

Joined Bugles Across America today.  It was recommended to me by a WWII Veteran because they need buglers to lay our veteran’s to rest with the appropriate honors.  I hope to have an audition within the next week or so.

Bugles Across America is a not for profit organization created for and dedicated to the purpose of providing a live bugler to serve in honoring veterans at military funerals and other memorial occasions.  Each volunteer bugler must be capable of discharging those duties in a manner conveying total respect and dignity at all times. 

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Collier Honor Flight ~ Mission II

Departure ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/collierhonorflight/sets/72157644328997534/

Welcome Home! ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/collierhonorflight/sets/72157644298188366/

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A Happy Life

“For a happy life, heed this advice. Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

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Collier Honor Flight ~ Apr 2014

Met some more incredible people today.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/collierhonorflight/sets/72157643865414555/

 

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“Quando omni flunkus moritati”

“When all else fails, play dead” ~ Red Green

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Starbucks

“If bad breath had a name, it would be Starbucks” • Christine Whitmire

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Respect

It’s not about the guns, or texting, or flying popcorn, or fastfood, or forgotten anniversaries, or atomic wedgies, or ceramic squirrels.  It’s about respect for one another.

Each of these incidents and many many others are a result of someone resorting to violence due to a percieved slight by others, whether intentional or otherwise.  Had mutual respect been part of the equation, it is likely that none of these would have escalated to a violent act.

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Frost

Since when is frost “Breaking News”?  Only in Florida . . .

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Holy See Ar Ay Pee!

Our National Anthem, “THE Star Spangeled Banner”

Without a doubt. THE BEST rendition, ever!

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GMC Sierra: ‘Submarine Hulls’

“When redesigning the GMC Sierra, engineers relied on roll-formed steel,
the same material found in the hulls of submarines. Big ones.”

The commercial shows the submarine breaking through the arctic ice.  But wait, that’s not the hull, it’s the sail of a nuclear submarine!

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