Tonight we had an official goodbye ceremony for our families courtesy of a group known as the Mechanicsburg Club.  We got a catered dinner at the Farm Show.  My family and I shared a table with another soldier from our unit and his parents.  My youngest daughter Lisa, who is a vegetarian, sat next to the soldier.  He got the beef.  In fact his all time favorite restaurant is a Brazilian Churrscuria--the ones where more than a dozen kind of meat are served by waiters moving around the restaurant offering various cuts of mostly red meat.  He and Lisa made a lot of jokes about what constituted a real meal.  My wife said Lisa actually just wants to kill vegetables.  
Even better, they had a Kids Food table, so my son (no vegetarian) could have hot dogs, pizza, chicken nuggets AND mac and cheese!!
Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)
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I saw the ceremony on WGAL last night. I was wondering if you were there. Didn't see you, Hollywood.
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