JANUARY 27 "YESTERDAYS VICTORIES"

 Walter Kitchen fought in the countries toughest war; he was heralded as a brave soldier, Purple Heart, Badge of Honor, awarded the Navy Cross twice. He was one of the few that fought; and lived another day to tell others about it.  Walter came home from the war in the summer of June 1945. A highly decorated officer fought and victorious in what many believed one of the toughest wars of the 20th Century. With the war behind him, Walter as many other young soldiers came back with a rugged enthusiasm that having survived the war, nothing could stop them now in their quest for life. Walter was found dead in his living room apartment floor in August of the same year. The coroner’s report diagnosed the cause of death to “an allergic reaction” to a common bee sting. How ironic it was that Walter would survive the rigors of World War II, bullets flying over his head, bombs exploding beside him; only to come home and die the victim of a Bee, a common insect that kids and adults alike kill every summer without too much effort. If there’s one lesson we can learn from this, it’s that each day, each year holds new challenges, new obstacles that must be triumphed over. It just goes to show, that yesterdays victories (as grand as they may have been) are just that; behold a new dawn rises and along with it comes a whole new set of mountains, that we must climb and conquer and whole new set of valleys that we must descend into and arise out of!

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