Wednesday in the Third Week of Lent
But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children
I was in a casual conversation with a veteran once, speaking of military life. For some reason, the chat took a hairpin and he began to recite the relative qualities, or lack thereof, of the various brigs in which he had found himself incarcerated over his martial career. It was quite a full list.
At one point he learned forward, as if to share a secret,…