Navy Brat Proud and True...
Hi all welcome to my blog hop stop for the Musa Memorial Day Hop. Yes I am a proud daughter of a Navy man. My dad is and will always be my hero. I, to this day, remember saying goodbye to him for his deployments on the Southpac tours. 9 month deployments to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong where he lived on a big aircraft carrier and we, his family, awaited for him anxiously stateside. And yes he was on this <------ big boat pictured here the CV-64 USS Constellation or the Connie for short. When you are young 9 months is an eternity. Okay it still is an eternity even as an adult. But he missed on birthdays, games, school plays. All in service to his country and to keep us safe. Did I miss him...hell yeah. Would I have him give up serving his country to be with us? Not in a million years. So Dad I don't think I say it enough THANK YOU and I love you. I raise my glass of MEAN TEA to you and to both my grandfathers who bravely served in WW2. Now I am embarrasse