Hundreds of people gathered at the Mashpee veteran’s memorial park this evening to pay tribute to two young soldiers, ages 19 and 21, who lost their lives in combat this past week, and to remember a third Mashpee citizen, a young mother, who was a casualty of the Iraq war almost a year ago.
Incredible for a small community like this one (around 14,000) to have the sad duty of mourning not one but three of its citizens lost to war within a 12 month period.
July was brutal, it seemed like summer would never end, but here we are, two weeks away from Labor Day.
I can’t wait for the tourists to go home. The increased volume of traffic really got to me this year.
If the whole business of being a vacation destination were to go away, it wouldn’t disappoint me. So, we’d have fewer restaurants, not so many summer activities and a smaller tax base. That’s a reasonable trade-off for never seeing another Florida or Connecticut license plate again (the folks from Alaska can come any time they like).