Rita and I are walking along our blissful beachfront in Boca Raton, and of course as usual I’m picking up discarded plastic bottle caps desecrating our pristine beach as we go. So far, I have collected two blue caps and one white one.
As I proudly capped my military service to our great country after having proudly served eight years in The New Jersey National Guard, I kept looking for the missing color red, for after all, it was Memorial Day weekend.
Searching for a plastic cap with the missing color, it felt like I was at a deserted railway station and there wasn’t a Red Cap in sight, so I’m stuck carrying my only white and two blue caps, yet tomorrow’s Memorial Day.
After we finished our walk and approached the stairs leading off the beach to our condo, enroute to the hoses to wash the sand from our feet, we passed by the recycle bin. There I paused for a moment wishing I had found that red cap, then I tossed the two blue caps and the one lone white into the container.
And do you know what and how much our brave soldiers have had to shed to protect our great country? It’s a bold color–a bloody red. God bless them!
Had there been a red one to go with the white and blue ensemble, I would have saluted them and left all three symbolic plastic caps, red, white and blue, on the side of the recycling container for my fellow Americans also to admire proudly and perhaps salute as I did on Memorial Day Weekend.
Tom Madden is proud to have served in his country’s military and applauds the leadership role the United States of America plays throughout the world. He is the author of many blogs, books and articles and is the founder and CEO of TransMedia Group, the PR firm he started when he left NBC in New York, and today his daughter Adrienne Mazzone is president of the firm now based in Boca Raton, FL.
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