Olioboard Inspiration – A Daughter’s Veteran’s Day Tribute

Entry #3006, November 11, 2013

Today we continue Stagetecture’s feature ‘Olioboard Inspiration‘. Before you enjoyed – ‘Preparing your Holiday Guest Room’ from Adele Baumann Healey. Today, I feature Heather Lee who is a member of the Facebook Olioboard Fan Room group and she gives a loving tribute to her father in honor of Veteran’s Day today. Let her words and Olioboard inspire those Veterans from the past, present and the future.

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Olioboard Inspiration #47

‘A Daughter’s Veteran’s Day Tribute’    Heather (Ashlee) Lee

Veteran’s Day Tribute

I am an Army Man’s Daughter.  I have led the Army life.  My mother was introduced to it when she became my father’s wife.

I was born a few years later and moved from place to place.  Sometimes I never knew when we were to move again or my new friend I just discovered had to move all over again.  Friends came and went through my life; it was hard to get really close.  I knew at any time there could be a post.  I was posted here and posted there and even overseas.  I learned that people spoke and lived different ways than me.

I had no idea why my life I had to go here and there, why couldn’t we stay in one place where friends and family were?

There were all these protocols that you had to figure out.  We had certain ways we must act and not tarnish the army name.

As I grew older I dated army men and there was always a saying “The army wife came from within.”  It was easier for an army man’s daughter to become an army man’s wife because she had already been through the ways of army life.

I left home later on and thought I got away from the Army way but it seemed to follow me every time I went home for a stay.

My father is now retired from the Army life but now he has become a Veteran and changed my thoughts on life.  Now I call him Poppy, for that distinction he has earned and he made me a small set of his metals which he had proudly earned.  I am so proud to be a Veteran’s Daughter I wish I could wear the metals every day and puff my chest out proud.  But I take them out on Remembrance Day each and every year and go and stand by Veterans with my metals I am proud to wear.

They fought for our country and fought for freedom and many lost comrades but still they stand there proudly chest puffed and metals dressed.

So when you see a Veteran, please remember this, they fought for us to be here and deserve the right of respect.

–Heather Lee

(I had this in my head for the last few weeks and had to get it out.  I am not sure it is exactly the way I want it to come out but I hope Poppy likes it!)

My name is Heather Lee but I go by Ashlee on Facebook. I am the daughter of a Canadian Army Veteran. I spent much of my life traveling with my family all over Canada and the North and South of Germany. I was very lucky to be able to travel so much and learn other languages. I lived a mile from the border of France and the family traveled there often. I think I have seen every castle in Europe. I now live on my own in Toronto, Ontario. I am a huge animal lover and I volunteer with the Annex Cat Rescue that helps feral cats. I also foster cats. I enjoy creating different rooms on Olioboard and talking with other members of the Olioboard community.