Why am I here?

Why on earth would anyone want to start a blog? It looks like the ultimate in self absorption. No matter, I was led into this by my daughter, who kindly set up the blog for me. You prabably guessed by now that I was led here kicking and screaming. Yeah! Fat chance!
Basically. I am a soldier, and have been for 41 years. My wife, Mary, was with me for almost 37 of those years, and I believe that she was the ultimate Officer's wife. (The ultimate Wife, Period). We spent 13 + years on active duty, 23 years in the active Army Reserve, and the rest of the time in the Individual Ready Reserve.
All that Army stuff left me enough time to complete a second career in a "Governmental Corporation", and a third in a Medical Device company.