It is time for Christmas on February 4th at my house. Actually, it is all the times Lcpl Forest Blair missed here at home for Thanksgiving, Birthday, Christmas, New Years and most importantly, A Heroes Welcome Home Party! Deployment is over and post deployment leave starts at the end of this week. Cannot wait. For now, there is a new acrylic painting to start that depicts the other end of deployment. I am starting a new piece called "A Time For Peace" - Lcpl Forest Blair and his girlfriend Miss Rachel Hort. Ecclesiastics 3:1-8 says there is a time to every purpose under Heaven. My favorite part is in verse 8. There is a time to wage war and (best of all), A time for peace. Home is my marine and just one day after homecoming, he is walking along Topsail Beach in the peace he and brothers fought so hard for. We are protected because of them. Each step on that beach is meaningful to the freedom we enjoy because of Forest and the brave men and women like him. They have run the race and kept the faith. Semper Fi 3/6, well done!
For my 3/6 Battalion I am starting a painting of multi media that has its start from a book that was given to Forest as he entered the Marines. One quote from Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address in 1837 says what our military embodies.
...Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you, as guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of all the human race. May He who holds you in his hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enable you , with pure heats, and pure hand and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge he has committed to your keeping...
The background is our country's flag with this quote. There will be a montage of scenes from the 3/6 Battalion. More to come.
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