Happy birthday to you both and especially to you, Jim +1!

Awesome! I'm glad it seems to be coming together!

Thanks so much Vee! I'll write more about what I did in commemoration. I'll put it this way, however, I've been so busy I haven't been able to even ch...

I can sing fairly well. Not necessarily as a soloist, but in an ensemble I fit in pretty well. (I was a music major. Played trombone but I can hold a ...

How long has Col Savre been there? Seems like it's been several years.

I already called "Bear" (as he was called for a lot of his life) and he was having a good birthday with the family. Just so I've said it her...

Oh see now you make it too easy! I'll wait a day or so, however, to others in on the game. He had a destroyer escort named for him and then its constr...

Whoa, I didn't realize how much they were. Gonna have to save up some money... That's an expensive brick! No wonder building costs are so high!

Happy Birthday!! Hope you had a great one!

Thanks! That was taken last Thankgiving when I built the .50 Cal out of wood. Good times indeed!

At first I was thinking Colonel Peter Julien Ortiz but I don't think that is right.

CIED - Counter Improvised Explosive Device

Froques Cousteau?

Very nice poem and I love the picture. Thank you.

No clue in Albany. Gotta go to a Cub Scout camp out so can't figure it out!