W L  Winkles in his sparkling WW II Army uniform.

Pictures lost?

A few years ago, a friend gave me a packet of pictures from Meriwether County. I love old pictures and these made me sad for the folks who lost them. The school class pictures make me want to find even one of the people in the photos. I just imagine what the occasion was when these ladies and gent got dressed up for. Was it Easter, Mothers day, or maybe the Fourth of July??

I can spend hours looking at old pictures, so if you have some you don't know who they are, pass them on to me, I would treasure them forever.

Korean War exhibit

Most people forget about the Korean War. I recently took someone to the VA Hospital in Atlanta, it was a nice trip (except for the traffic). Before I was so rudely interrupted from taking pictures I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be taking I got a few.

Newnan-Coweta Veterans Park Downtown

In case you've been living under a rock, Newnan has a wonderful Veterans park. They sell bricks so you can put your military relative or anything you wish on them. They install the new ones every year before Veterans day. This pic is of my son, dtr in law, and my fathers stone.

Memorial Day

My son got married two weeks ago. We had the grandchildren for 8 days.
So if anyone missed me at the Memorial Day activities, now you know why. Grands are nice, but too much of a good thing can be bad. We were so wrapped up in them that before I knew it, it was noon, and too late to go take my normal 1000 pictures.

These pictures are from Sept 2012.

Every year the POW/MIA ceremony includes a missing man table with six empty chairs set up around a table on the Court Square to represent service men and women from the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard -- along with a final seat for civilians, American Red Cross volunteers and media who were killed in war.   The table is round -- to show our everlasting concern for our missing men.   The tablecloth is white -- symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call to duty.   The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the life of each of the missing, and their loved ones and friends of these Americans who keep the faith, awaiting answers.    The vase is tied with a red ribbon, symbol of our continued determination to account for our missing.   A slice of lemon on the bread plate is to remind us of the bitter fate of those captured and missing in a foreign land.   A pinch of salt symbolizes the tears endured by those missing and their families who seek answers.   The Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God.   The glass is inverted -- to symbolize their inability to share a toast.