"Thank you for being my husband these 48 years. It was the greatest lesson in living my life and made every difference in my thinking." -Geraldine Meek "Love is for youth & I am old Love is for warmth & I am cold Love is given but I am taken Love possesses but I'm forsaken And live alone, alone " -First Lieutenant Ward Benjamin Meek, Zentsuji, April 21, 1944. "The best-fed, best-trained, best-dressed army in the world was fighting over a Spam sandwich." -Pop Ferrusi Free-lance writer and columnist Ralph Ferrusi is a life-long resident of New York's Hudson Valley. He has walked the 2179-mile Maine to Georgia Appalachian Trail?twice?and has traveled to 44 countries in 23 time zones on six continents. He is an avid cyclist, a long-time vegetarian, and enjoys fine (and some not-so-fine) wines. He has danced inside the Rock of Gibraltar, and once sat in the cockpit of a North American P-51D Mustang.