Veterans Day - November 11, 2008

For the men and women who have served our country - and for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, PASSION = TRUTH salutes you all.

A special gratitude goes out to members of my family: my father - James Ircink, my father's brother - Tom Ircink, their Uncle Ervin Krause and former Muskego police chief, their first cousins - Paul and Chuck Ircink who served in Vietnam, 2nd cousin Bernie Schroedl, my friends Jim Sickels and Jim Keller, cousin Mark Weigel, who'll be deployed in Iraq in January 2009, high school classmate Dan Titze who served in the first Iraq War in the early 90's, and my friend Maria McCann's (here in CA) father - Mr. McCann.

All have served. And all have returned, thank God.