If you love what you do you will never work a day in your life... ain’t that the truth.  

 

I never take for granted the life I lead.  I know that I have been given many access and opportunities to places and events that few people ever get to experience.  Sitting ringside with Don King at the moment of the notorious ear bite during the Tyson Hollyfield fight.  Interviewing Doctor Kissinger, Senator McCain and Chuck Yeager and others. Traveling to Iraq with Chuck Norris to visit the troops in Anbar Province last month.  Standing in Pan Mun Jom Korea on the Northern side of the border while North Korea Soldiers watched just feet away.

 

While all of that is exciting and adventurous... it is still the little things that make life an adventure.  It’s the private moments that I have been so honored to be a part of.  Life moments that come and go for all of each and everyday.

 

September 30th was one of those days.  On this day I was asked to attend the promotion ceremony of one Brandon Guffey a member of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Co. 2/7 Cav.  Every promotion ceremony is an honor to be witnessed.  For every Serviceman and woman they can usually tell you who pinned them for every rank they earned.  For Brandon it would be his father that would pin his SGT strips on him, to become a noncommissioned Officer.  As Scotty Guffey told me the day before as we were walking to lunch.  It’s an honor to be able to be there when you kid is promoted and to be the one to pin him.  But to be able to spend time in a War zone and see your son promoted and to be the on pining him... “it’s priceless”.  

 

For me, this is why I love the work that I do.  This is what is important... the moments that compile a life.  My work has allowed me to meet the Guffey family.  To witness a moment in time shared by a father and son that so few will ever know about or understand what it is these families do for all of us.

 

This is what makes the series I am shooting so important to me.  Not to influence... but to inform.