Magical Helen Kowalska

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

St. Maria Faustina, (Helena Kowalska)

Helen Kowalska

February 3, 2014 – February 28, 2024

I loved you for your whole life and I’ll miss you for the rest of mine.

a month and a butt

In all this unnecessary craziness.

There was a spouse or a mother that helped her Marine pack.

She helped get their gear together.

With tear filled eyes, she helped fold everything to fit.

She read off the gear list as they double checked everything.

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setting the table

Memorial Day.

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.”

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Memorial Day is often considered the unofficial beginning of summer. Parades take place, the grill is dusted off for the first time.

But actually, it is much more than that.

Memorial Day is in remembrance of soldiers who fell in combat risking their lives for their country.

It is about gratitude.

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