Veterans Day Quotes

“I had a terrible premonition. His flight was to Miami. The old news footage flashed through my mind of Air Florida Flight 90 to Miami that went down in a freezing rain. It showed pieces of the wings and smashed fuselage floating in a huge hole in the ice next to the Fourteenth Street Bridge. A helicopter trying to lift a survivor from the black water. Rescuers watching helplessly from the shore. I tried to call him, but the network was down. I’d seen this fearsome power of the past before, how it can rise up without warning and strike the living with unerring timing. Later Lorenzo called from Miami and said it was a rough flight but they made it. I was happy that for once my intuition was wrong.”
― J. J. Jorgens, Veterans Day. A Mary Jane Morris Mystery

“I studied myself in the mirror. Not bad. Moderately attractive at thirty-five with some good years left. But the signs were there. One day the stress would take its toll and I wouldn't be able to do this any more. Aunt Carmen kept sending me photos of her hotel on the beach in Costa Rica. Uncle Klaus and his Rover, sun-drenched sands, brilliant blue water, and schools of fish hovering above underwater reefs. She said come down and relax for a few weeks. I felt like answering how about a few months, or a few years?”
― J.J. Jorgens, Veterans Day: A Mary Jane Morris Mystery

“When I jumped from the bottom rung of the fire escape into a puddle of smelly water, there was Davy’s cat. She had a rat by the throat and looked at me with fierce eyes. The rat thought it could outrun her. Big mistake.”
― J.J. Jorgens, Veterans Day: A Mary Jane Morris Mystery