Hi Cousins... Soooo sorry!! I have a one tracked mind sometimes!!! <sigh> but..the poem that I just sent to you was NOT about Colonel Edwin Dyess... It was about another great DYESS relative!!! A. J. Dyess...for whom a ship was named for... I'm so sorry...just had Colonel Dyess and The Dyess Story on my brain as I wrote the title.... Yikes!!!! Not getting old...just getting a one tracked mind..<grin> kaite... (Carolyn Dyess Bales)