welll...i did it...i read this at the service today...and during the reception people kept coming up to me...and saying that was a nice piece....and one of my aunts said that it spoke for everyone who couldn't go up....i woulod say thanks...and say how hard it was for me to go....it was all i could do to go up there...every ounce of strength....

and I told my oma...that i loved her she took me by the face and she goes in her german voice...oh nathan i love you too...i always have....and then we hold each other...as she tells me she loved the poem as well...and that shewants a copy of it....

next is the military ceremony....he retired a master sergeant from the air force in 1973.....