Sometime last summer, my son found and remembered a saying that he found. Told me it would make a great plaque.  Being that he was a paratrooper and jumped into Panama and led the French on their "end run" into Iraq during Desert Storm, I had to do something special that was just for him.  This plaque is the finished project.  Oh, yeh, the jump wings - - before we did our 14,500 foot jump a couple af years ago, he placed a bag in my pocket and told me to give it back to him after we jumped.  In the bag was his jump wings and his comment was "I jumped with these wings and now you have jumped with my wings.  The patch on the plaque are those wings.  Thought it would make it very special to the both of us.  Anyhow, sorry for my ramblings, here's the picture.

From flying, to jumping, to fighting on the ground.  Got it all covered.

 

Merry Christmas, son.

Edited December 25, 20178 yr by Fred Wilson

What an awesome Christmas gift. I am sure he will cherish it forever!

Fantastic, heart warming story too, I salute both of you.

Herb

And a big Air Force saaaalute right back atcha

Thanks guys for the warm remarks

 

Love the sentiment expressed on the plaque and the story, as well.

Really like that saying and a few others. Next is a scroll saw lol

Very, very nice.

Kinda like the emotions don’t transfer into words. Very nice!

Thanks, Artie