12-07-2016, 12:20 PM
Unfortunately, returning to AZ a week from tomorrow.
Turtle Bay is a wonderful Nort' Shore destination.
Nort' Shore has been a destination since small kid time . . . especially since the Triple Crown of Surfing began its run.
And the Eddie . . . glad Quicksilver worked it out wit' da family and it's on!
Seated at Pearl, as I type. Local time 6:05 AM. With the survivors in their section. Luck of the draw!
All branches of the service on deck and couldn't be providing any better service to all guests. Feeding us Starbucks' caps and lattes, Grandma's Cookies, Cliff Bars, water, soda . . .
We're looking straight across from the AZ Memorial. Only vets and survivors will visit that sacred ground today. . . along with their families.
I simultaneously realize how young I am with the survivors and vets, by my side, and yet how old I've become looking at the "kids" in uniform attending to us all.
From officers to enlisted, as many males as females . . . and it goes the same for races, too.
I'm actually starting to get choked up taking this all in.
As corny as I sounds, I am so fucking grateful to be an American citizen!
I'm not gonna apologize to anyone for this great country and what we give to the world.
As an aside . . . not many Japanese here today.
Turtle Bay is a wonderful Nort' Shore destination.
Nort' Shore has been a destination since small kid time . . . especially since the Triple Crown of Surfing began its run.
And the Eddie . . . glad Quicksilver worked it out wit' da family and it's on!
Seated at Pearl, as I type. Local time 6:05 AM. With the survivors in their section. Luck of the draw!
All branches of the service on deck and couldn't be providing any better service to all guests. Feeding us Starbucks' caps and lattes, Grandma's Cookies, Cliff Bars, water, soda . . .
We're looking straight across from the AZ Memorial. Only vets and survivors will visit that sacred ground today. . . along with their families.
I simultaneously realize how young I am with the survivors and vets, by my side, and yet how old I've become looking at the "kids" in uniform attending to us all.
From officers to enlisted, as many males as females . . . and it goes the same for races, too.
I'm actually starting to get choked up taking this all in.
As corny as I sounds, I am so fucking grateful to be an American citizen!
I'm not gonna apologize to anyone for this great country and what we give to the world.
As an aside . . . not many Japanese here today.