GOD BLESS CHARLIE COMPANY...

About 20 extremely hardy soles gathered a-top a highway overpass in Indiana, to give a send off to the "best & the brightest" our Country has to offer...Charlie Company, Michigan National Guard was headed for Afganistan. They were on the above busses. All of their gear/vehicles are already gone to the war zone.

Here we were gathering and waiting for the buses. We got lots of honks from semi's passing under the bridge. They saw the flags. We luckily had a daughter of one of the troops texting one of our group, telling us their progress (they were following the busses). We got a 15 minute warning, 10 min....and then right over the hill!

The wind was brisk, and this was the sign that we hope they actually saw. We know that they saw all the waving flags, because they flashed their head lights at us and some waved.

When one person joined the group, he said, "We gotta be crazy"....I responded: "Yes....we are. But those guys on the buses are anything but crazy. They deserve us being here...."

The chill factor was way down in the single digits. It was so cold....