Honor Flight

Working backwords.

I spent yesterday at the Brewers home opener . . or I believe I did (that's what they told me). Little did I know that I would spend the tailgate portion of the festivities playing drinking games! Thank goodness I brought along potent craft beer while everyone else was drinking Miller 64! Why even bother drinking that garbage - you certainly can't get drunk on the stuff . . . .YET THERE I WAS drinking 7% ABV beer with my buddies drinking their little Sally Beer at 2.8% ABV (that's not actually beer is it? Why not just get some NA "beer" and stop pretending to drink)  So while they guzzled two cans I was like drinking 4.

Then you add in the shots every hour . . . . . yea . . . . I heard the Packers were at the game but I could not actually focus at that point.  I'm glad my camera had Autofocus as I certainly was not.
 
Well - we all know how the game went, the Crew lost 2-1.  Did you know that in the last 5 years the Brewers are 68-11 when the opposing team scores 2 runs?  Awesome!!  I'm glad I could see the anomaly!

The weather was not  . . . . BAD . . . but it was a tad windy when outside.  Here I am taking major gulps from high ABV beer.

The Brewers are so desperate that called in balderdash to bat at one point.

The PROBLEM is that the Brewers REALLY need Hart and they have just had bad timing.  The bottom of the order is really having problems. Well, the top of the order is hitting .236 so I suppose the top AND bottom are sucking. 

This is the view from our seats in the Club Section. The new scoreboard is magnificent. Too bad they could never show any highlights (there were none). 

Here is Miller park after the game!

First game I have gone to and lost for a while!
------------------------------------------------------------

Saturday night DJ and I went to greet DJ's dad who was on the Honor Flight to Washington! Honor Flight is an organization that transports Veterans to Washington to visit all of the Memorials and I tell ya - there were quite a few tears in the eyes for the WWII veterans on their return.  They were not expecting THAT big of a crowd.

The Dane County Airport was jammed packed and as we watch each hero start down the steps almost to the man you would see a "WOW" and then tears would well up! Many said this was the happiest day of their lives!

There was a band there and I mention this because they were GREAT!!   Ladies Must Swing were awesome and if you ever need a 1940's style swing band - these are the ones you want to get.

and we saw Joe Biden!

here is Mel starting down the steps, you can see he is starting to get emotional.

And while the last remaining WWI hero just passed away there were some survivors from an earlier war still around.

 

If you are ever ask to donate or want to donate from something that is so so wonderful for "The Greatest Generation"  Go to Badger Honor Flight dot com.

Cheers

Rod