Devil Dog Brew has a new friend.  Claire is not so rare as an American Patriot. Nor is she rare as proud wife of an Army Soldier. No, Claire is not even rare as the caring mother of an Army son.  Those relationships are natural for those of our community and common to so many of us.  Her rarity is that she gives us voice.  She has heard the call of her country and she is unapologetic in her love.

“Courage is the American who refuses to collapse and be crippled in the face of threats of terrorism. It is the American who remembers vividly the pictures, sounds and smells of where she was on September 11, 2001, but still refuses to live in dread. It is the American who dug his heals into the ground and decided resolutely that day that he would not stop seeing his loved ones on the opposite coast and he would not stop his career because it involved flying. He faces his fear and adversity with a stone resolve.” from Courage by Claire

Knee Deep in the Hooah is Claire’s labour of patriotism and the Universe I care about.