Celebrating Strasburg, Colorado, a small, friendly town in the plains east of Denver...
I started vacation last night, so we are trying to make the most family time. Mom had to run out to get something for Cub Scout Pack 439‘s float (see it in tomorrow’s Strasburg Home Town Days parade)…and Augie wanted to go to Taco Bell for breakfast.
So, we climbed in the car…and even though it is a hybrid…we do need to get gas sooner or later. That’s where we got to see flags that that same Pack 439 put up:
Strasburg has no cemetery (to my knowledge), so on Memorial Day we join our neighbors in Bennett to remember those who have given everything so we can have the freedoms we cherish.
The first remembrance was at the Mount View Cemetery at 10:00AM, and the second at the memorial beside the Bennett Recreation Center at 1:30PM. Here is a video from the first one with a couple of biplane flyovers, a 21 gun salute, and taps:
Words can not properly express what we owe the men and women who gave their lives to protect us; nor can they compensate the wives, husbands, parents, and children left behind for what it cost them in tears and heartache.
We cannot thank those who are no longer with us, but we do thank their families. May God bless you and yours this Memorial Day…and may God bless America!
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It’s done!
World, we present you the one…the only…
Pinewood Derby…
Minion Flamester!!!
Cub Scout Pack 439’s Pinewood Derby is this coming Saturday, February 6. It starts at 9AM at the Strasburg Elementary School. If you have any questions, please contact Pack 439 or me.
In case one picture isn’t enough… 🙂
Fellow Cub Scout Pack 439 Scouts…are you ready to race?!?!?! 🙂
Time to go onto other things…but late yesterday afternoon and evening we threw up the first version of a new web site for Strasburg’s Cub Scout Pack 439 (and tweaked it today). Check it out?
Even better…have a boy in first and fifth grade or who is 7 to 10? Please contact them and see how your youngster can have a ton of fun will improving his skills and growing his character.
…you will get to see me wear this cool name badge. 🙂
Well…you’ll get to see it in mid-February when I become Cubmaster. 🙂
However, join now! Great kids, parents, and leaders. Lots ‘o fun and activities that’ll help your youngin’ gain skills and build their character. If you are interested and want more info, please contact me.
P.S. I was chosen specifically because the wanted someone who, quote, “Wouldn’t be afraid to act crazy.” Now, if that doesn’t sell you on it, what will?! 🙂
P.P.S. I got my badge via QuatermasterStore.com.
Although I mentally went, “Ugh!” when the alarm went off at 6:30 this morning (so Augie and I could get breakfast together before meeting with the Scouts at 8:00 in front of the American Legion)…I am really glad we got up.
Until today I was unaware of Wreaths Across America. From their “Who We Are” “Mission & Vision”:
Our mission, Remember, Honor, Teach, is carried out in part by coordinating wreath laying ceremonies on a specified Saturday in December at Arlington, as well as veterans cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.
And honor them they did today at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver. Â As part of working on their Fellowship and Duty requirement, Cub Scout Pack 439 attended the ceremony and laid wreaths at servicepersons’ graves. Â I don’t recall the main speaker’s name, but he was a 93 year-old WWII veteran of the famous 10th Mountain Division. Trained in Colorado, he returned after serving his country.
It was a bit nippy out, but our boys did great during a relatively long ceremony, standing behind (to support) a group of Boy Scouts displaying American flags. (That was ad hoc…when we arrived the Scouts’ leader asked if we wanted to join them.)
Thanks to those who have served our country, especially those who gave the ultimate gift to protect our liberty. Thanks also to all the families who shared in their sacrifice and to those who, with missions like this, make sure we do not forget that freedom isn’t free.
