Kevin ‘s pub’s upstairs "museum" is called the "Hall of "Heroes" and it is a room full of commemorative memorials to September 11 first responders, WWI and WWII, Afganistan and other middle East wars… so we spent some time up there and then hit the river walk going all the way to the end (west to east), then back up to Bay Street to visit the Viet Nam memorial and Irish memorial. Then to what Savannah calls the oldest pub where I met a retired Air Force veteran and talked with his wife who loves to travel! Then an Air Force guy walked in in the khaki uniform. As we got up to leave I engaged him in conversation. Pointing at his bars I said, "lieutenant, right?" " If I were Navy, yes, but captain." All field commissions. I pointed at another patch and asked… "Chaplain", he said. I said, "it’s the 10 Commandments, are you a Rabbi?" I’m now falling in love, he’s not treating me like an idiot!!! Chuck and he talked about what it’s like being on submarines versus jumping out of airplanes as a Ranger "If I go down in a sub, we can come back up…" Chuck said! They laughed. What a day we had, such celebration of America. Go hug a military person or a first responder! God bless us.
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