Date Night...and a chance encounter-13 March 2010

So Collin and I had our date nite after doing our sitting swap last nite. There really were no movies either of us were dying to see but seriously...we needed some funny. And pretty much any funny...even sophomoric and juvenile was going to be acceptable! So...we went to see the movie She's Outta My League. Ridiculously juvenile...mostly lame plot and crazy overuse of curse words. But funny. Mostly. And we needed that. It was very nice. We saw the movie downtown in Yuma and then went to the newly opened little German restaurant for a bite to eat. I had my go-to dish of bratwurst with some yummy cucumber and onions in a white sauce! MMMM yum! it was good and a very yeasty brochen to go with it. Collin had some sort of beef dish? not sure what that was...
As we were leaving the restaurant we started chatting with an older couple at the table next to us. Frank and Jackie Holy from somewhere, Washington state. Married for 56 years, the sweetest couple. They chatted us right up and turns out they had met an instructor out here-Alfonso Rocha- and did we know him? Haha! Yes, we know Al! They told us the nicest story about Al. He'd met a relative of theirs on a plane into Yuma and she and he talked of the military and she told him of her 90 y/o grandfather who'd been a POW/MIA for 3 mos in WWII and how the she'd tried to get the Veteran's groups to do something for him and they couldn't. So Al said he would see what he could do. He got an American flag and did a jump out at YPG with it and then went to see that 90 y/o gentleman. He presented him with the flag and told him how grateful he was for the man's service to our country and for his sacrifice so many years ago.

Frank and Jackie Holy couldn't speak highly enough about Al and for what he did for their friend. They were there when he presented the man with the flag. Standing in that German restaurant it got me choked up at the kindness of Al to do what he did. The respect of the courage and dignity for this aged veteran. It chokes me up now as I think back on it. What a kind gesture that I am sure that family will never forget!