A Salute to my brother and his son the Marine and to our  great-great-great-great-great grandfather the fifer in the Revolutionary war; to  great-grandfather Henry Butts, Civil War veteran; our two uncles and cousin, now deceased, who made it home from the Pacific in WW II; and my son who did peacetime duty on a submarine. And a special salute to my grandson now in Iraq, may he live long as a proud veteran. [2010 update. Thankfully he is now back in the states where he will stay until the end of his contract with the Air Force.] Continue reading Veteran’s Day: Books That Travel Through History →