The Veteran's Parade at Silver Dollar City

When my father and his friends marched off to war, few of them had been farther from home than the state fair. I think we forget that sometimes. In our global society, we connect with friends across the sea as easily as we chat with neighbors across the back yard fence.

But for my dad’s generation, Europe might as well have been another planet. I can’t imagine what it required to go to war. The bravery, the sacrifice, the determination. I only know it was very, very far from home for those Macon County farm boys.

May God bless all those who have marched away from home on our behalf. And protect those who continue to do so.