2009 in Pictures

The flowers are real, but they didn't grow outside anywhere around here. It's still winter here. Today it got up to 17!

This is a piece of very jagged metal removed from the soldier's leg. He still has several pieces of shrapnel in his body and sets off metal detectors at airports.

These are some of the mementos our friendly WWII vet shared with us. The tank-like model is what they called a weasel. The airplane is the type of plane he jumped out of.

This WWII veteran told us many stories of his experiences in the war. He was a paratrooper, dropped behind enemy lines, in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He was also in the "Battle of the Bulge" in Belgium and helped to liberate villages in Holland.