A man of valor- take back America

Few things are as sacred to me as the burying of a soldier.  Last month America Lost many of the "Greatest Generation."  Among them was my Great Uncle Bernell Evans.  

Bernell was with the  group of soldiers to land on Omaha beach-  D-day.  To his dying day, he could smell the scent of lilacs-- they were in bloom that day in June 1944


After the invasion of France, Bernell’s group traveled 2,500 miles up and down the front line wherever they were needed to assist different units in their push eastward. That road took them up Omaha Beach, across France to Paris, then to Liege, Belgium, and Aachen Germany and into the Battle of the Bulge, down the line to Southern France, to a cow pasture near Volmunster France, across the Rhine River at Mainz German to Kassel and on to Leipzig; then into Czech and to Pelsin and Blatna where they connected with the Russian Army. Bernell reports that the four guns they had with them had fired 21,527 rounds and received much respect by the time the war was over

To place a flag upon the casket of one so aged who fought at an age so young- that is America!  How grateful I am to my Great Uncle Bernell for being a man of valor.  He is my hero.

My heroes have passed on now-- those old,who fought young-- Max Dickson Weaver, Edward Irel Hofheins, Francis Lebaron Leany, and now Bernell Evans. 

Take back the 4th of July and remember... express gratitude- never forget!  When I salute the flag, I salute the many men and women who fight and who have fought for freedom everywhere.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! XO, Barnwood and Tulips.