Hero June 20
NaBloPoMo: National Blog Posting Month — June theme: HEROES! Link to my original post is here. I will only be using first initials to protect each person's identity.
My hero for today is: "Joe Cool!"
Alright, alright, so I don't know his name. But he's just plain cool. And I hope someday to find out who he is—I wonder if he knows just how much he's made everyone involved with CFH grin when they see his photo?
The photo I'm talking about was sent to us by one of our Marine contacts in Iraq. She had told me last fall she took pics of everyone with the cards, and I waited and waited...but assumed they weren't coming when weeks passed. I hate to bug them when they're all so busy. But at the end of February, suddenly an email came through with the photo....of "Joe."
Yes, he's cool, you have to admit it, right? What a classic! We get a number of photos, but it's rare to find one of a guy so comfortable in his coolness that cheesin' with a bunch of cards in his hand doesn't look painful! :) I mean, we love any photos of our men and women....but this one is simply a classic.
During the bloghop you might have noticed that Tereza posted this photo and talked about the red card being one of hers. Well....the blue one is one of mine! I think she and I both had the same thrill at seeing our cards in the hands of "Joe Cool"!!! The blue card is one that I fortunately had taken a photo of while it was here...because I had to doublecheck to see that it really was mine. :) The idea that this big burly hero picked out my sweet little lamb Christmas card just made me GRIN bigtime! And it's a stamp I had only made about 5 cards with after purchasing it last fall—hardly worth the purchase until the photo showed up!
So my Joe Cool card is dedicated to this unknown hero with the big grin...I'm so thankful for him, his whole unit, the person who took the photo, and the contact, S, who sent it to me. I'm thankful for all the cool Joes and Josephines who serve our nation so well every single day, and I sure hope they know how much all of us at home think of them!
