Military Appreciation Week
Memorial Day for too many Americans is seen as just another holiday, a reason to get off work and hit the beach or go fishing. It has lost its significance and meaning. This Memorial Day attend your local parade, visit a veterans cemetery or simply bow your head in a moment of silence to honor and remember those who gave their lives so that you may have the freedom to enjoy your holiday.
Separate from the rally a Military Appreciation Week thing was being put on in Ruidoso. Supposedly the Living Wall Memorial was going to be there the day before and I was hoping to see it but it was gone already and we missed it. Friends online had ridden to see it and said it was well worth their long trips and a very powerful memorial.
Playing with lights
The MAW event was nice, they gave away the key to the city to the Holoman AFB and they had displays and vehicles from all branches of service and a lot of stuff for the kids. There was a bomb squad suit for the kids to try on and this kid trying to walk around after suiting up in AF firefighter equipment was hilarious.
Mini Firefighter
Cece of course went straight for all the gross stuff, the spiders centipedes and scorpions in jars they had at the medical tent. They even had some baby rattlesnakes in there. When the nurses / medics found out she worked at the
Rattlesnake Museum it was them asking all the questions instead of the other way around. They were all keenly interested in her job duties and the stuff her museum had.
Baby Rattler
Cece and one of them were talking about the snakes and vinagaroons they had found around the house and gave one of the other nurses the willies and she ran off. LOL. If only I had a video camera. Eventually I had to pry her away from her new found friends or we’d be late to the other events.
It was misty and damp and by now all the walking through the grass our feet were wet and miss warm blooded was freezing. We got some coffee (chai for me) to warm up and headed toward a gathering of people down the field where some demonstration was going to take place.
In the distance I heard “Fire in the hole! Fire in the Hole!” I had thought she heard it too but apparently she was too involved in her coffee and wasn’t expecting anything when…
APC
KABOOOOM!!! They set off a charge to clear some concertina wire big enough that I felt the shock wave and we were still 50 yards away and it sent up a mini mushroom cloud. She must have jumped 3 feet high, I couldn’t stop laughing for days when I thought about it LOL.
First Wave
When the smoke cleared some soldiers ran through firing followed by two APCs with lots of reinforcements inside, pretty neat to watch except I couldn’t get the shots I wanted with some guy in shorts just standing there in the way with a video camera way beyond where the safety tape was. Whatever kind of blanks they were using made their rifles sound more like paint ball guns too, I’ve heard cap guns louder than that.
Reinforcements
With that over it was time to get to the best part FRYBREAD! for lunch and hurry over to the motorcycle hill climb competition which was unfortunately canceled. I’m proud that I didn’t get honey all over the car scarfing that down while we rushed to the other end of town. Had we known that it was canceled we could have stayed to check out more stuff.
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