At your ripe old age of going on three, you won’t be reading this, and even if it were read to you it doesn’t have the pizazz of The Cat In The Hat.  But, I’ve been thinking of this for some time now and it is time I made the commitment.

When I began this blog, one of my primary reasons was to chronicle my military career.  If others might be interested in reading it, so be it, but if not, that was OK, too.  The latter came to be the case, based on the lack of comments, but the number of search engine hits for those posts has been interesting to watch and the specific search terms that garnered the hits have been even more interesting.

In any case, I’ve decided there is another reason to once again push into the project.  It is a lot of work, possibly more than I can handle, but someday you may be interested in what was going on with your ancestors. 

It is not likely to happen anytime soon, and my bet is that it won’t happen while I am alive.  If/when you develop an interest in your roots, your ancestry, it is not likely to come when those of us who actually have the information are around to share it with you.  I learned the difficulties of that when I began my interest in ancestry fairly late in life.

So, what started as a chronicle of my military career is going to change a bit.  Actually, a lot.  Related posts will disappear from the blog, and perhaps the pages where they have been accumulated into something like chapters will, also.

I will still be working on the project once it is rearranged offline, and I may post progress periodically online again but with password protection for family and friends who may wish to read along the way.

The big difference, however, is that I intend to expand it beyond the military career.  The career was of course a major part of my life, and it certainly was for your father and his brothers in their younger years, but there is so much more, I think it wise to include that as best I can.

So, one day you may find an old stack of dusty pages, or perhaps an old CD or whatever medium is current when I reach various stages of completion, and you may find it interesting, if for no other reason beyond curiosity.  Or, having found it, you may have little or no interest at the time and simply set it aside.  But at some point, I believe you will wonder.

It gives me pleasure to think that one day you may sit down and turn those pages.  

This is the first post in a new category:  Family