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The Law of the Sea
Phred Firecloud Started conversation Sep 4, 2006
Alexandria, Virginia - 3 September, 2006
We board the yacht Celebrity in Alexandria at 5 PM for the wedding…The white-haired Captain performs the wedding ceremony on the Potomac River….There is an open bar…dinner is served after the ceremony…the boat cruises slowly toward the sea and then turns around and passes Reagan International Airport and the Washington Monument as darkness falls…
We don’t know the bride well although we have been friends with the mother of the bride for many years. The father of the bride, a more recent friend, Bruce, wears his Navy Captain mess dress uniform with all the medals he earned in four tours as a Navy seal in Vietnam. He has two silver stars on the right-most side of his bank of medals.
The bride, we learn, has taught in the American University of Beirut. The groom has served in the Peace Corps in Tonga and Zimbabwe. At one point a very energetic dance breaks out with Tonga music and eight young people who have served in Tonga dance with the bride and groom.
After the garter and bouquet tossing and the cake cutting, the guests are all issued yellow rubber ducks to salute the newly married couple on the dock with faint squeaks...
I was very mpressec to meet these young people who represent the best that our country has to offer. I learned today that crows mate for life. My hopes go with this young couple. May they do as well as crows.
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Also Ran1-hope springs eternal Posted Sep 4, 2006
4th September 2006 8.30 a.m.
What a wonderrul wedding. And how super that two young people should meet who obviously share the same compassionate approach to others. we wish them joy and happiness in their marriage.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Christiane 
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Phred Firecloud Posted Sep 4, 2006
A silver star is a high award for heroism in combat.
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Phred Firecloud Posted Sep 4, 2006
All I ever got were medals for longevity, Vietnam service, marksmanship and 
good conduct.
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Woodpigeon Posted Sep 4, 2006
Still though.. it's a pretty heroic thing just to sign up for something like that in the first place.
It's something I can only imagine - *how* someone could even think of heroism when bullets are flying.
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Sep 4, 2006
The yellow rubber ducks were a classy touch. 
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Lady Chattingly Posted Sep 4, 2006
Loved the rubber ducky idea.
"Crows mate for life..." So do doves, or so I've heard.
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Phred Firecloud Posted Sep 4, 2006
Wedding pictures...
http://family.webshots.com/slideshow?ID=553795179
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