Hell on Wheels 2009 - GAF color guard

[Sagebrush Burns]

At the recent SASS 2009 High Plains Regional, Hell on Wheels, the Department of the Platte was honored to present the colors for the opening ceremonies of the match.  My thanks to those who made this possible:  Wretched excess, Joe Dirt, Black Jack Flag, D.P. Birch, Curly Bigelow, and Captain Jack Storm who organized the detail.  Following are a few pictures of the color guard at work.

Sagebrush Burns,
Brevet Colonel, commanding
Department of the Platte
Grand Army of the Frontier

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[Terry Lane]

Excellent, Gentlemen. Take care.

[Trailrider]

Colonel, sir! Looks like a right smart, well-turned-out group of troops!  Sorry to have missed it!  My wife has some medical problems, and has had two "minor" surgeries already, and we are getting second and third opinions about what follow treatment (and possibly more extensive surgery) may/will be required.  Right now, we aren't saying too much to the nearby community, as she doesn't want a bunch of sympathy...wants to keep a positive attitude!  Fortunately, one of the more important tests (sentinal lymph node biopsies) came back "negative", which means the bad stuff hasn't spread!!!  She feels fine, otherwise!

Any prayers you can send to "The Great Mystery" on her behalf, would be greatly appreciated!  But, I'm not supposed to be telling folks, so don't let on that I told you!

BTW, if your ladies have not had an annual mammogram, LEAN ON 'EM HARD to do so!  This thing could NOT have been detected any other way, and it took some of the most modern updated image enhancements to find the small change that has triggered the whole "campaign"!  My wife goes to her GYN doc every three months, and he could not have detected it without the annual pictures!  The software that enables the image enhancement came from either the declassified imaging software released by the "gub'mint" several years ago, specifically for medical use, or from the imaging software used on the Hubble Space Telescope, or both!  So for some people to say the space program isn't worth what we are spending on it...!!!

Ridin' down the trail, hopin' for better times, I remain,

Your obdt servant,