Since I wrote all about him this weekend, here’s a picture of my great-grandfather Tonice before he went off to war:
You can read about it here and here.
Just for fun, this is, perhaps, the first picture he took with me. The back of the photo says this was in a state park in Tennessee. We sure knew how to dress back then, didn’t we?
I know quite a few veterans. I’m related to even more of them. Every time I read something about gallantry I think of at least one of those people. I’m fortunate, then, in a lot of respects.
