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The Red, White, and Blue

My oldest grandson was at summer camp this week and his brother was home with mom and dad.  They sought to make the week special for him, as well, since he is quite old enough to go to camp.  One of the things he did with his Dad centered around errands his dad needed to run with one of them being to the local larch building materials warehouse.  Now, if this was the oldest grandson, they'd have packed a sandwich, planned on spending the day, and come home awesomely satisfied to have just lingered in the aisles looking at this and that!  Unfortunately, my youngest grandson doesn't quite enjoy those trips quite as well.  In fact, he teared up and said he really didn't want to go! I had stopped by to pick up something from my daughter's house, so I actually got to hand my grandson a couple of handfuls of change which had been collecting in the little drawer on the dashboard of the car.  I hoped he might find a little something he wanted at the store and woul...