Out My Back Door, Inside a Small Town

I've been lax in the blogging because I'm on VACATION! The kiddos and I have traveled across part of Louisiana to visit with the grandparents for a few days.

Upon our arrival, we found out a soldier who had been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq was being flown in to the local, little airport in this small town, back to his home town and his family. The mayor had asked folks to line the streets and wave their flags and stand in honor of this fallen soldier. The small town turned out in mass number.

It was moving. It was silent. It was a reminder of things still going on on the other side of the world, and how those things still affect folks in small towns and large towns across America.