O.K. Liz, your post gives me permission to share a

O.K. Liz, your post gives me permission to share a dream of my late father. I couldn't sleep due to the neighborhood bar's loud band so I watched an old movie with Sophia Loren. William Holden was her boyfriend, a WW2 tug skipper. The band stops at 2AM, I fall asleep. I vividly dream & see myself on the deck of a WW2 era ship with the Southern Cross overhead. I go below and walk in the ward room to find junior officers playing craps. The kneeling Lt, with $2,000 in his hand, is shaking the dice. It's my dad! The game actually happened on his way to the Philippines. I had initiated my SFOR position that week. I added another 2K to it the next day.