camp nelson military cemetary

ok, so i stopped on the way back from lexington to visit my dad.......or rather...to search for his headstone amongst the others in rows that look exactly the same......i remember the general location...but the rows are filling in....as they will in times of war, i suppose.....and this time i had to walk around a bit in the wet grass before i found it.....and noted that a grave in the vicinity had recently been altered....the wife's name and dates were on the back of it....i wondered how that worked and now i know......i felt ashamed that i had not thought ahead to bring flowers....to arrive emptyhanded seemed cheap and ungrateful for a father that never arrived emptyhanded to visit me....i really miss my dad, especially in the spring when he would give gardening advice on the phone.....i still feel guilt when i fail to put the weedandfeed on the lawn in march.........the lexington trip was a post-earthday sweep of our favorite goodwillstores.......our little way of reducing and reusing.......found lots of things for cayle and for our eldest.....in fact......the structure and perry ellis and lauren and izod items i found for andrew are just fabulous considering the price........i also made a few early graduation and birthday gift purchases......i do not often travel to lexington....and one must look ahead toward events in the offing...especially for folks who deserve better than an impersonal check.......and i bought myself a really neat set of picture albums.......maybe i can make myself organize the volume of photographs into some semblence of order sometime soon.........or maybe not....and i can just put the albums on the shelf and pretend they are complete.........