What place has made you Blush, cry, make you proud...?

The Law Enforcement Memorial in DC. Several names of friends and co-workers listed. Hard to keep it together when I am there... and even thinking about it.

Blushing? A beach outside Oaks Bluff, MV. The memory involves my ex husband and am eternally content I'm no longer "dinged" for his behavior. Sorry his children can't say that though:).

Cried as I threw a wreath of flowers in the water as I passed through the Panama Canal on a cruise ship. Both of my grandfathers worked to build it and lost friends and family members during the construction. My paternal grandfather lied about his age to get a job there and in the decades to come had no problem admitting he sobbed for his mother at the beginning of his employment.

Pride? In my home. Currently proud that 2 members of the next generation have recently achieved personal goals that would make their ancestors happy.

The dignity that I witnessed when my father, a WWII veteran who served in the South Pacific on Guadalcanal, was laid to rest at Fort Logan still wells me up. I do not remember much after hearing the words spoken by the Lieutenant Colonel of the Honor Guard: "On behalf of a grateful nation..." Still tough to reminisce about it, let alone type it.

I was never in combat in my time with the Corp, but my heartfelt respect goes out to all persons who saw battle. My dad spoke very little of what he saw and the only time I ever saw him tear up was the one time when I asked him if he ever had to kill. As serious as I have ever seen him was when he almost broke down stating that it "was either him or me."

I am so proud of my father, a child of the Depression who served with honor and dignity makes me proud with tear filled eyes when I remember him.

Any military cemetery, with is precision of markers wherever it may be makes me proud to be an American citizen.

...thanks for asking and letting me share this with you.