Make a Difference Day

According to my nifty calendar, today is "Make a Difference Day" and, while I can't claim to have made a difference to anyone today, one group certainly did. A motorcycle group (I won't call them a gang because they are much too good for that) spent today -and a good deal of money, I'm sure- planting trees. They replaced 75 trees that had died over the last 100 years in Memorial Park. The original trees had been planted to memorialize local soldiers who died in battle in World War One.  The new trees will be dedicated on Veteran's Day, November 11. I like the idea of trees as a memorial. I think I'll try to go to this dedication.  Although they weren't from Allen County, my mother-in=law's three brothers and my father-in-law all fought in WWI. I never knew my father-in-law. He died before I met my husband from heart problems brought on by the mustard gas he had inhaled during the fighting in France. It all seems so long ago but it was na ugly war.