Savannah Wins Veterans Day Essay Contest
November 14, 2008
Every year, the kids school gets very heavily into Veterans Day. They have big festivities complete with Army Marching Band, guest speakers and every year up until this year, a military flyover. The rural community has always supported the school well and this celebration is no different as many attend the school’s festivities.
One of the other attractions for the kids and community is the annual Veteran Day’s Essay contest for the school kids. This year, Savannah’s 5th grade essay was picked as a winner. I thought I would reprint her essay here.
Veterans Helping Hands
Everyone in the military is important, but not just fighting for our Country. They help with natural disasters and problems all over the World.
The armed forces helped a lot during Hurricane Katrina. Since so many people did not evacuate New Orleans, they had to save people in trees, on top of buildings, and the ones trapped in buildings. It was really sad for the armed forces to see all of the people who didn’t survive on the streets, but they still completed the job.
Veterans also help in everyday things like poor people. They also make big donations to charities. The Marines sponsor “Toys for Tots” too. They do a lot more things than these to help our Country.
People in the military also help by fighting for Democracy. They are fighting in Iraq so that they can have a Country without Islamic Fascism. If we do not finish the fight in Iraq, Iran might try to take over Iraq and establish more Islamic Fascism. So that’s why I honor the military people in Iraq helping to save their Country.
I also honor the armed forces because they help in natural disasters, they fight in war, and help out in everyday things. But there is one more thing I forgot about Veteran. They are strong when we are weak.
She was worried when she submitted the essay that it would be considered too conservative so she was very excited when she won. It surprised me too, but only because I hadn’t seen it until after she won. Congratulations Savannah!
Oh, about the military flyover… It seems this year and edict came out that the Pentagon has to approve all flyovers, so it had to be scrapped for the year.
Yes, It’s Another “Where’s Mr Papa?”
August 1, 2008
Where in the heck did the last week go? It was nothing but a blur. That’s good in some respects and bad in others. As to my website updates, it was bad. Sorry for the lack of updates over the last week.
A pop up business trip opportunity became available for next week and it has nice potential. So of course, spent a lot of time the last week prepping for the trip. It’s probably a 2 hour meeting, but a day of travel each way. Luckily, its to a beach town on the Ocean, so will definitely get some ocean time. 
I have also been hard at work on the wordpress simple:press forum plugin that I help develop. A few weeks ago we got out a bug fix and minor change version to the community. Now, for the first time in a while, we are actually working on adding some cool new features which means more fun coding than bug fixes. If interested, you can follow the development along on our trac site.
Savannah also decided she wanted a website. She has been really getting into youtube – as you probably have noticed with the recent videos we have posted here. She has quite a group of “friends” over there and is constantly exchanging messages and such. Of course, that means we have to go through there periodically and check up on the who/what/etc.
So in addition to the youtube stuff, she decided she wanted a blog. So I obliged here and created her a blog. On her blog, she wants to review movies, tv shows, music, video games and other stuff. If family members want to email us for a link we will be happy to send it along to you so you can check out its humble beginnings. I haven’t posted it here, just to keep the two blogs unassociated.
Suzanne and the kids have been busy dancing, as usual. The Summer Recital is tomorrow night so there has been a rash o dress rehearsals. Mr Papa will be in the audience enjoying the show.
The kids start back to school next week so Suzanne is happy. She gets all her free time back to herself. The kids, of course, would rather see the Summer season extended. They have been busy during the Summer preparing a powerpoint presentation on some of the places we will be going on our Cruise this fall and kind of picking where they want to go in the ports. We will have a big family gathering not too far in the future to review these and solidify the cruise port plans.
With the exception of the business trip next week, I hope to resume regular blogging patterns soon.
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