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| A MUCH younger picture of my son, Alex (right) with a soccer buddy, Pete. Old picture, but I really like it! |
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| OK, here's an updated shot of him in May 2002 before the middle school formal. My boy's grown up a bit, huh? Well, maybe not once you see some of his more recent shots! He's a kidder, that boy o' mine! |
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| Here's my nephew, Nick, when he was a cadet at West Point along with my father and mother. We were up there in the fall of 2002 for one of their spectacular parades prior to a football game. They most always lose, but they put on a good disiplay beforehand!! |
| Here they are again, done up in tropical flair for a luau I had. |
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| David's a retired Navy CPO who now works in our family's electrical contracting business. I took this of him during that same trip to West Point and gave him his own ship as a background. Thought he'd appreciate that! |
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| Group shot of my oldest brother David, my mother and my other brother Stephen. We went up to West Point to visit with Nick and to watch a football game. Here we are out in the parking lot enjoying a bit of pre-game festivities!! |
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| Since Stephen's the pilot of the family (he's been flying since before he could drive!), I figured he warranted his own copter. We'd seen a whole flotilla of them while waiting for the game to start (hmmm, a group of helicopters isn't called a flotilla, that'd be David's genre, but you get my drift). |
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| David and his new wife, Debbi, on their wedding day...May 11, 2002. Beautiful outdoor wedding on the banks of the Delaware River. Couldn't have asked for a nicer day! |
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| The big thing to do when going up to West Point for the day is to tailgate in a section calledTrophy Point, just beyond the Parade Ground, which offers a magnificent view of the Hudson River. Here we have Stephen and his daughter, Natalie. |
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| Nick, poster boy for the USMA!! Now, he won't tell you that he'll probably NEVER wish to don these duds again now that he's graduated, but he certainly did them proud while he did wear them. |
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| 2003 Graduations |
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| Just a tad bit older but definitely showing his goofy side, something I don't think he'll EVER grow out of! |
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| From October 2004 until April 2005 he was stationed in Afghanistan. Here are some of the amazing shots he sent back....don't think it's always hot there...it gets really cold and snowy as well. |
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| Nick and a few of the locals. Despite bristling with weapons, Nick and his outfit provide mainly humanitarian aide to the locals...something that the U.S. Media doesn't really play up all that much, but it should. |
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