a postcard home...

On the same day my Uncle Chuck wrote his mother (my Grandmother) from the Ft. of Mt. Meeker, Former Vichy prime minister Pierre Laval surrendered in Austria. Just six days later, and probably three days after she received the postcard from her eldest son away at Camp St. Malo, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. I was thinking about my son Patrick, who if the camp was still open, would be the third generation to enjoy the St. Vrain Range. He was born after 9-11, which is our modern benchmark in terms of the world deteriorating. Still, some 80,000 civilian lives were lost on August 6, 1945 compared to our 3,000 or so during the Al-Quida attacks on our country.