I wish our rural area had a league close enough to play. We can't even get a church league going nowadays. I'm not sure my fishing elbow could hold up to a hard throw to first any more.... from 2nd lol, my natural position.
THE NEW D-LEAGUE
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Good morning folks.
Respect today to all who have sacrificed so we can live in this wonderful country.
If not inappropriate, I'd like to just mention two who died serving America who I met while doing my job:
Navy Capt. Scott Speicher. I met him aboard the USS Saratoga in the Red Sea shortly before the start of Desert Storm. He seemed like an admirable man. I wrote about him in one of my dispatches, noting that he told me his father had been a fighter pilot in World War 2, and he was proud to carry on the tradition. He was shot down over Iraq I think the first night of the air war. MIA until 2003, when I was back in Iraq, and heard his body had been found.
USMC Major Megan McClung. Megan was the Marines' public affairs chief in the Ramadi-Fallujah sector in 2006. I passed through there, and like all journalists checked in with her for a briefing, and form her help in getting embedded with combat patrols so I could report of what was going on. I met her a couple times. Shortly after my last trip to Fallujah I heard she'd been killed by an IED explosion while performing her duties. I've seen her grave site at Arlington.
Prayers for their families today, and for all the families of those who died doing their duty.
Respect today to all who have sacrificed so we can live in this wonderful country.
If not inappropriate, I'd like to just mention two who died serving America who I met while doing my job:
Navy Capt. Scott Speicher. I met him aboard the USS Saratoga in the Red Sea shortly before the start of Desert Storm. He seemed like an admirable man. I wrote about him in one of my dispatches, noting that he told me his father had been a fighter pilot in World War 2, and he was proud to carry on the tradition. He was shot down over Iraq I think the first night of the air war. MIA until 2003, when I was back in Iraq, and heard his body had been found.
USMC Major Megan McClung. Megan was the Marines' public affairs chief in the Ramadi-Fallujah sector in 2006. I passed through there, and like all journalists checked in with her for a briefing, and form her help in getting embedded with combat patrols so I could report of what was going on. I met her a couple times. Shortly after my last trip to Fallujah I heard she'd been killed by an IED explosion while performing her duties. I've seen her grave site at Arlington.
Prayers for their families today, and for all the families of those who died doing their duty.
A great-great grandfather of mine, Frederick Brandt, an immigrant, was shot through the head June 5, 1864 at the Battle of Piedmont, VA. His regiment, 28th OH Volunteers, along with others was attempting to take the Confederate defensive position. He was later buried at Staunton VA National Cemetery. A great uncle died in France at the end of WWI from the so-called Spanish Flu.
Re warning track power: at a playing weight of 170, I was never a Mark McGwire , but I got all my body weight into my swing, so I hit it harder than a lot of guys bigger than me. After a couple of surgeries on my left leg, I could no longer step hard into a swing. It made me to much of an arm hitter and was very frustrating.