So today I'm driving home from dinner with my family and we all talking and chatting and I look out the window because my parents are just looking at the sky because we can see rain in the distance, and they thought that was cool. So were sitting there looking im on the phone with my uncle and he's talking about movies he has seen and whats going on where he lives. I turn to look out the window and I see a cool figure in they cloud and I say, "oh cool guys, look at this cloud its so cool" now they are thinking its just the sunset so they say " yeah we know its cool you can see rain and the  clouds are cool your like a conversation behind." and I tell them "no guys look it looks like a soldier kneeling at tomb stone" and it did it had a helmet, a back pack, and everything and there was a tombstone shape also.

 now my family after a little while actually look at the cloud and see it. So to capture this once in a life time event we want to take a picture. so we pull over and attempt to take a picture. now it took my mom and I forever to get out cameras up to take it and by that time it had morphed and changed. but it had only changed the soldier enough to look like he was holding up a gun and defending the tombstone.

this I though was so heart wrenching that I just had to make a story on it. So here goes.

a soldier stands in battle side by side with his men. he eats with them, he sleeps next to them, he feels there pain, he fights with them. they all become the best of friends. they fight to defend there country from all evil. they are they force that keeps us safe. now on this day, on Memorial Day we remember those who have paid the ultimate price for our country. those who have died defending what is right. on this day Memorial Day, we remember those who have died for us.

Now most people don't know this but Memorial day was started by slaves during the civil war. What they did was they took there bodies of the Union soldiers that had died on the battle field and gave them graves with wooden crosses for tombstones. The government realized this and decided to create a day around these acts of kindness and they told these slaves " you know what you just did for these soldiers, you memorialized them." from then on we have celebrated Memorial day to give light to those acts of kindness.

Now on Memorial day we have picnics and cook outs and maybe just a family gathering. But what most people don't do on memorial day is go to a grave site. the only people who do that is people who have loved ones who have died in service. the only people who do that  are people who care about the fact that these soldiers have given the ultimate sacrifice for out country. now on this day we need to remember those who have died in service, because if we don't than who will.

to give you a story I will start with a boy. A boy and his father. this boy was like any other boy at his school. he played with the other kids, he eats like every other kid, he talks well and he has good grades. But the only difference was his dad was a soldier. Go to see his dad every once in a while when he was on leave but not as much as the other kids who talked to there dad daily. yeah its not  the dad he would have chosen but he got him and he loves him all the more. but sometimes when his daddy came home it wouldn't be like the last time. Sure he would get his welcome home party and everything like that but this time it was the 4th of July and there was fireworks and things like that. they little boy wanted to sit is his daddies lap and watch them with him and he did, but daddy Sat there only for a little bit. when the fireworks started he was fine but as they got louder and louder the blasts and flashes of light where more then just fire works to him they where gun shots and bombs going off. daddy ran off to hide from the fireworks. the little boy was sad that dad had left but he under stood that yes daddy left for a little bit but when daddy gets better he will come back. the little boy had gotten used to daddy running off and screaming. he knew daddy was not okay but he also knew that if he tried to help it would only make it worse. the little boy knows how daddy can be when he first gets back.
When daddy left again it was back to normal. but this time it wasn't just a few months till he saw his dad again its 3 years and the boy is not in middle school. when dad came back this time he was older and he knew what happened when dad ran off screaming and he knew what not to do to have that happen. he greeted his dad when he go home like any boy would if he hadn't seen his dad is over 3 years. And when they got home they had a meal already for him and everything. they knew no surprises, no fireworks, no loud noises, Because if they had any of those they would set off dad. but little did they know dad was easier to set off this time. He woke up in the middle of the night screaming and sweating from the night terrors. And jus something as little as a crashing dish could get his in defensive mode. now this time that they had with him were short and scary most of the time but it was time with dad. this boy looked up to his dad. he knew that one day he wanted to be him. now when dad went away this time they thought it was going to be the last time. but there goes 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 6 years, 10 years went past and they heard nothing. finally they get a nock on the door by a man in uniform. He says " your husbands been a prisoner of war for 5 years. we have sent in recue troops but they were unsuccessful, we have tried everything we can to bring him home. we are deeply sorry but he has be declared a Prisoner of War and can not be retrieved." the man is uniform explains that there is nothing they can do for him. but they will provide the with everything they will need for a service is they wanted one. and anything they need for college and things like that. the boy now being and adult and being fully in enraged by this news drives to the enrollment office and enlists in the army to find his father.
he goes through mission after mission. year after year. to find his father 2 years go by and nothing but finally he gets sent to the place where his father was imprisoned, on a rescue mission for on of his men. they successfully infiltrated the site and taken capture of the soldiers holding them there, and his men find all the soldiers that had been imprisoned there. he found a man who had told him that his father lasted for 12 years and said that his boy is coming for him. this soldier showed his to the place where they had placed the body. His body was berried by the soldiers that had had been imprisoned with they had put a rock there as a tomb stone with his name on it. the boy stood by this fathers grave fell to his knees and wept. If he had only gotten there a little earlier than maybe he could have saved his father. when the soldier looked up he saw something move behind a building. when it peeked out again he realized it was one of the prison guards pointing a gun at him. the boy rose his gun and rose on to one knee, pointed, aimed, and fired. He had killed this man defending his fathers grave. 
the boy returns home with his fathers body in a wooden box covered in an American flag.to finally lay to rest his father.