12/24/2023
Excerpt from a book I just discovered tonight called “Deployed with my Mother” by David Weill III, who served with Dad in Desert Storm. Gotta tell y’all this broke me down hard two days before Christmas! This was my dad, at home, at the VA, at church, in the desert during a war! What he was, a Christian, a patriot, a real tough dude, a real man, a good guy, he was all the time. Flawed, certainly, we all are, but he put his eyes on Jesus in every situation, not just on Sundays! If I can ever be half the man he was, I’ll die in peace someday and be ready to face the Lord, because I saw it lived out for 44 years! Thank you God for giving me the two great parents you did! Sorry so long y’all, this just made me awfully proud to be Barry Tripletts son, had to brag on him a little bit! Merry Christmas everybody!