Humor in Uniform 4/21/2010

4/21/2010
After our son, Vincent, left for a year’s stint with the Air Force in Korea, we decided to send him a string of letters from friends and family taped together to form a banner. Vincent’s grandmother had done the same when her brother was in World War II, and she was proud that the banner she’d sent off had measured 18 feet long. My husband and I were determined to match that length, so we feverishly sought out friends and relatives to contribute to the chain. Weeks later we had the banner finished, but it was barely 17 feet long. Still, we sent it off to Korea, happy with our efforts, although a little disappointed that we didn’t quite measure up. Shortly afterward my son called to say he had received the banner. “I can’t believe how long it is!” he said excitedly. “But why didn’t you two write?” Louise and Richard Jones