4 months down.
4 months until KO comes home on leave (hopefuly).
8 months left in this deployment until its over.
... I already have my welcome home sign's made... (Had them made a month ago..)
So the theme of this years Volunteer Luncheon was the Golden Starfish.
Each volunteer was given a blue card with gold lettering and a gold starfish pin.
The card reads:
While walking along a beach, an elderly gentleman saw someone in the distance learning down, picking something up and throwing it into the ocean.
As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, picking up starfish one by one and tossing each one gently back into the water.
The old man smiled and said "I must ask, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?"
To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die."
Upon hearing this, the elderly observer commented, "But young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"
The young man listened politely. Then he bent down, picked up another starfish, threw it back into the ocean past the breaking waves and said "I made a difference for that one."
COMMENTS
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Vampirewitch39
14:55 May 26 2009
:) I wish him home soon, safe and sound, to his family and loving wife.
ShatteredAngel
16:08 May 26 2009
It's great that it's coming up so soon. Pretty soon you'll be able to count in days or weeks... :)
Enjoy his homecoming. (if I don't get to tell you between then and now).
LadyChordewa
05:31 May 27 2009
Theban
19:11 Jun 03 2009
Good luck : )