Last night, we had a meeting to plan for the Veteran’s Cemetery “Wreaths Across America” ceremony for this morning. The general plan of distribution and crowd control was laid out, with several solutions to various DefCon 4 wreath mayhem and crowd scenarios taking up several hours of discussion. People were assigned duties.
I, being a no-talker, volunteered for nothing. This means I was volunteered anyway, and that’s how I found myself assigned to distributing and dealing with all the handheld radios.
“Julie, you’ll be the Comm Specialist.”
“Oh. OK.” I paused. “Someone will show me how to use the radios, won’t they?”
Later, as we were driving back, Mark found fitting to joke about the scenario.
“Great. We have a Communications Specialist who doesn’t talk.”
That seemed an unnecessary comment.
If we could text, I’d be OK. I’m better on paper.
I’m glad you were volunteered, Julie.
[...] Last Saturday I helped with the Wreaths Across America program at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery here in Bismarck. It was a cold day (though not nearly as cold as last year’s event, I’ve been told), but by the time we were done later in the afternoon, it was worth it. My glove warmers still had some heat, and working with fellow Civil Air Patrol members and cadets as well as seeing the people laying the wreaths on the graves, made it completely worth it. [...]