Friday, January 22, 2010

Both January and February are great months for birthdays...


First: Colonel Edward Danowitz, USMC shared with us in our annual Christmas card exchange last month the news that "I'll be 89 in January and doing OK ..."

You bet! Colonel Danowitz, sir!

And a hearty Semper Fi to you, too, and to all those surviving Marines of WW II's "The Greatest Generation!"

Second: And if all that wasn't enough, there was yesterday, at Brackettville's "Stop & Shop" store and all - around watering hole.

A youthful maternal aunt of one of Saint Mary Magdalene's many all - around Altar Server / Youth Group / BHS Athletic personalities told us her nephew Mr. Raúl Rivas was turning the Big One Eight in February.

You bet!

Like two complementary bookends, for all there's a gap of 71 years between them, these two gentlemen represent for me a simple historical fact: in the Book of Life, there's always room for yet another Greatest Generation.

But it'll be up to such up and coming winners as Raúl, Jerry Lee, Oscar, Priscilla, Miranda, Bianca, Adam, Tony, Sam, Icela, José, Samantha, Marisol , Vero -- and so many more! -- to excel in what they'll be doing best.

As we never got tired of reading on that big sign outside of the fabulous Juarez school, La Preparatoria Federal Por Cooperación Chamizal:


"Siempre Habrá Una Nueva Generación"

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