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Every year at a local National Cemetery, Wreaths Across America puts wreaths on the veterans Graves.
Today was wreath retirement. My kid and I were there, and between all of the volunteers who showed up, we recoverd 2,300 wreaths in about 30 minutes.
After filling up two dump trailers, there were still wreaths needing to be carried to the place we were going to burn them. The organizer asked if they could put a load in the M715, and I told them absolutely.
This is the pile:
Once it was burning, I realized I had a great picture in front of me:
Said pic:
My buddy (a Vietnam Veteran) saw the pic and said his first thought was "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
I saw a random branch on fire, zoomed in and got a one in a million picture:
All in all a good day!
Today was wreath retirement. My kid and I were there, and between all of the volunteers who showed up, we recoverd 2,300 wreaths in about 30 minutes.
After filling up two dump trailers, there were still wreaths needing to be carried to the place we were going to burn them. The organizer asked if they could put a load in the M715, and I told them absolutely.
This is the pile:
Once it was burning, I realized I had a great picture in front of me:
Said pic:
My buddy (a Vietnam Veteran) saw the pic and said his first thought was "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
I saw a random branch on fire, zoomed in and got a one in a million picture:
All in all a good day!
