Ron:I and surely many others enjoyed your account of the tribute to your father and his fellow veterans. My dad was also a veteran -- of the First World War. He served as a gunner's mate on a destroyer that operated primarily in the Mediterranean. In a later war I walked in his footsteps up those dizzying steps that lead up from the waterfront in Oran. He died many years ago, but I think about him often and (I say it without embarrassment) talk with him. -- Fran