[Magdalen] Dress Blues.

[Grace Cangialosi]

OK, I'll bite: what on earth is a chocolate chip cap?? As I started reading, I thought you were going to tell us about a Hallowe'en costume! I'm a military brat, but I never heard that term...

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 5:14 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a chocolate chip cap with the brim that goes all the way around,
> which i wore all the time while in Desert Storm, and I put that on for
> special days.  I realized in the evening of the eleventh that I had
> completely forgotten it.
> 
> I just can't get into blowing my horn that much.  However, when I see
> someone with a cap that announces their pedigree, I try to thank them.  I
> best recollection was one Saturday morning, getting coffee on the way to a
> rehearsal, I saw a guy with USS Arizona on his cap.  It turned out he was
> manning the guns, and had been transferred off just prior to Dec. 7th.
> 
> I thanked him for his service.  He gave a big grin. "Didn't have much
> choice!" he said.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> There's a tradition and custom locally in some parishes to request
>> veterans to wear their "dress blues" formal uniform on the Sunday
>> closest to Veterans Day USA - 11th November.  This includes
>> all laity from ushers to Eucharistic ministers as well as those  sitting
>> with the congregation.
>> 
>> I opted for a Eucharistic minister to come by the house this past
>> Sunday morning, and I was surprised to see him bedecked in his
>> US Army dress blues at the rank of major.  I realize that I do  not
>> have a picture of myself in my major's US Army Medical Corps
>> dress blues, and even though I have the uniform, it no longer fits.
>> 
>> All that money spent on a uniform I only wore at the Hospital
>> Commander's Reception each January 1st!
>> 
>> The EM and I had a nice chat about the Military - he was in the
>> Army Infantry.
>> 
>> In any case Veterans Day USA is to honor ALL those who served in  the
>> US Military, whereas Memorial Day USA (30th May) is specifically to
>> honor our war dead.
>> 
>> I know it's Remembrance Day/Armistice Day elsewhere.
>> 
>> I think my most memorable 11th November was being in the North of
>> France on the 50th anniversary  of 11 Nov 18.  There was  the
>> tricolor bunting everywhere, and there was a light new fallen snow
>> covering all the great cathedrals setting off the detail and the  bunting
>> alike.
>> 
>> Dieu avec nous!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David Strang.
>>