Nevada Day

The day started early with hot chocolate, breakfast croissant sandwiches, and staking claim to a spot on main street for a parade. This years theme was honoring our military, past, present, and future. It was great to see so many branches of the military supported; current, and past. You can always tell when it is a election year. Candidates come out in mass as parade entrants to get in their last few visual prospects before election time; and being that we are a battle ground state it wasn't to surprising to have both Obama and Romney entrants also. Once you got passed the politicking it made for a nice parade in a bath of sunshine after our chilly and wet week. Following the parade we went to our local large park for the carnival and observation of the traveling Vietnam Wall. Powerful would be an understatement. Seeing the wall itself is breathtaking but seeing people leaving things, and searching for loved ones made the experience even more breathtaking. There was also a separate wall for lost soldiers  of our current war. Afterwards there was discussion with the kids about the meaning of the wall and the importance it exudes. It was a very powerful day but a great day in so many ways. The community came together and celebrated our states birth, honored military men and women of past and present, and observed a loss of lives.