February 14, 2008

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    Happy Valentine's Day 

  One Little Rose
  
  I'd rather have one little rose
  From a garden of a friend
  Than to have the choicest flowers,
  When my stay on earth must end.
  
  I'd rather have one loving smile
  From friends I know are true,
  Than tears shed 'round my casket
  When I bid the world adieu.
  
  So bring me all your flowers today;
  Whether pink or white or red;
  I'd rather have one blossom now
  Than a truckload when I'm dead.
  
  -Author Unknown
  

  This was one of my mother's favorite poems and she
  kept a copy of it in her wallet.  I thought I would pass it along to you today. 
  She was 46 when she died as a result of breast cancer.  I was just 15.  She
  would be 84 this year.  My mother and dad were married on Christmas Eve 1941. 
  She was 17.  After my dad enlisted in the Army Air Corp she managed to end up at
  Grand Island AAFB, Grand Island, Nebraska with him.  She was a dental
  assistant.  She was a GI sweetheart  and was featured in the base newspaper and I
  have that original paper.  Here is an "Official Photograph" marked USAAF on the
  back.

  
  

  
  
  The newspaper was called "Strictly
  GI" and is dated  Saturday January 27 1945.  I tried to scan the article from
  the paper but it is not coming out so well...very grainy and hard to read.  But
  here is what is says under her photograph in the paper.

  "If you should peek out from behind
  the dentist's drill long enough, gentlemen, you might meet our GI Sweetheart of
  the week.  She is Mrs. Gloria Mast, blonde-blue-eyed dental assistant at the
  station hospital.  Gloria has been working at the field for better than six
  months now, and her husband is one of the pioneers of GIAAF, having been here
  nearly two years.  Gloria hails from *********, but she thinks highly of her
  temporary home in G.I..  Reading is her favorite hobby, and though her husband
  is an x-ray technician, we don't need the ray machine to see that Gloria is a
  knockout!"

  Since it is Valentine's Day here is
  another one with she and my dad.
  

  
  

  
  
  Ahhh...and while romance is in the air...take a hop
  over to this
  site to see something
  very special that directly affects our family!!!  I have
  one beaming daughter floating around the house today.

  Oh and I just cannot forget my man!
  Here we are
  at one of our family's favorite spots.
  

  
  

  

  
  

  And....I could not forget my baby
  boy! 
  This one is when he still fit on my lap.
  

  
  

  

  
  

  And now...
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Hold on to your Valentines.....they
  are so precious, aren't they?

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