Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Sorry, I inserted this by accident.  I hope you enjoyed reading it again!  As of today, I am about back to normal with my arm recovered from rotator cuff surgery, and 6 weeks of physical therapy.  This was first published on June 4, 2014, before I even knew I would have surgery on August 25, 2014. ---------I am so grateful today that I am finally feeling almost back to normal!  For almost 2 months I have not been feeling well, some days worse than others.  It seems that I had been taking ibuprophen and aspirin too often, and it irritated my stomach so I was feeling nauseated a lot of the time.  After a stomach scope I knew I didn't have stomach ulcers, or stomach cancer, for which I am very thankful!  I can't imagine what people go through that have those ailments. Three times, on particularly miserable days, my husband Wayne gave me a Priesthood blessing, each time assuring me I would recover completely from this ailment.  But as usually is the case, Heavenly Father had

Today I'm honoring my father, Orson Pratt Miles, who was in World War I, and also my husband, Wayne D Eckman, who was in the army during the Korean War.  But Wayne didn't go to Korea -- instead, he and his twin brother Blaine were sent to Europe.  I'm posting an entry about my father, and you can find more about him in posts #;s 153, 33, 34, 37, 227, 28, 7, 85 -- (and others.)  He is listed under "Miles Orson Pratt", in the "Labels" and also under "My father Pratt".  I probably should have them all together! My father Pratt was a very sensitive soul, and he was on the front lines, either in France or Germany -- I'm not sure which.  But the "shell shock" left him with a full disability, and he had poor health the rest of his 84 years.  Also my husband, Wayne, was never on front lines, but he and his twin brother served in Trieste, and Austria, and were blessed to never have to actually fight.  There are posts about him and B