Operation Dinner Out is a GO!! This classic line used by Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) to activate a rouge Plan B to rescue Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) from a prison in China in the movie Spy Game (2001) has been used by my friends and me many times for its utter 'suavity'.
The term, however, has taken up a completely realistic meaning in my immediate surrounding over the last few years where my veteran mother literally has to execute any outing more like a commando style operation due to circumstances thrust upon her and which are beyond her control.
She faces the challenges of the operation with guts and courage along with my dad, a great "buddy" to have by her side.
Keeping in mind the ground realities of such military operations, the pair are rarely able to rely on support from any other units and have only each other to cover all angles of the operation.
And as if it were not enough to have survived through the many battles in life, most of which remain unimaginable to a rookie like me, the already distinguished veterans continue to face challenge after challenge keeping their heads held up high and understanding that life unlike an army, is not offering them a retirement age.
For me as a rookie, I can only salute them, while I try to prepare myself along with my own buddy to face such missions in the future..with both fright and prayer.
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