To Start on a Promising Note and One of Respect for All who've served in the armed services and 'paid the ultimate sacrifice of dying in battle or from their wounds', I am lighting a symbolic candle. I find it helpful to remember loved ones who have crossed over at this time collectively as well. Each soul braving their life faces challenges no one can really know. I would add that many hometown heroes may also have had only moments to decide whether to save another at great risk or actual loss of their own precious life.
That happened to be the way our teen son Kaelan Alexander Palmer Paton