The moon goes full at around midnight tonight, I spent the day in the joy that is candle-making.  And now, for the sorrow that falls to seemingly equal or even exceed every pleasure….the list of names released since the last moon phase post.
Spc. William L. McMillan III, 22, of Lexington, Ky. Army - Iraq - […]

As Afghanistan begins to act less and less “pacified”, I can only think that veterans of that place in the former Soviet Union are laughing.  We helped the Afghanis to kick their butts, bring down their Hind helicopters and send them home in disgrace.  As one of my old New Age friends would have said […]

Must post…must make it so my own picture does not greet me here like a very bad copy of an Oprah magazine!  So, why not just take down the picture that I put up in a mentally shaken state?  Why blissfully (or nervously) display what my most controlling personality side thinks must surely be a […]

I updated the counting bead strands today, and thought about how the beads…each one a dead man or woman from the USA or other Coalition countries, are not really “seen” on the monument. So, since the beads were off for cleaning, counting and stringing new strands…I put them on ME and went out to […]

Here are the names released of those killed in Iraq or Afghanistan from the first quarter until full moon this month.  My profoundest sympathies to their loved ones.
Pvt. Eugene D. M. Kanakaole, 19, of Maui, Hawaii,-Army - Iraq -non-combat incident
Sgt. 1st Class Gerard M. Reed, 40, of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., - Army - Iraq - […]

Well, that is what the widow said, anyway. When Maj. Lance Waldorf went to a cemetery with his will, his note, and his side-arm and shot himself to death, his widow, Lana, attributed it to the peace of heaven speaking more clearly to him than the pain he was living with after two tours […]

The list of names released from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the last quarter:
Sgt. 1st Class Jason F. Dene, 37, of Castleton, Vt. - Army - Iraq - non-combat incident
Spc. Christopher Gathercole, 21, of Santa Rosa, Calif. - Army - Afghanistan -small arms fire
(this was a Ft. Lewis soldier)
Spc. Justin L. Buxbaum, 23, […]

(** A correction to the names below is inserted.  Also, when I got back to my restored listing, I found two more names of Coalition troops killed in Afghanistan before the date of the New Moon.  They are at the bottom and marked with  a “*” ) My usual source of the non-American names was […]