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Relating to that link you posted, and the article I read by the solder, I was having dinner with my son and his wife last night when she was relating to us about a guy that works at her company but was on leave from Iraq and on his way back for the second or third time. He is chomping on the bit to get back, by the way.

He is biv-wacked, (is that the right word?) in one of Saddams palaces, and was asked why he is so white with all the sun there and it being summer still more or less, and he said he gets very little out-door time. He evidently is in charge of handling the re-building of the schools, and other stuff like that. Wish I could remember more details.... but he did say that things were going really well there, they were all proud of what they were doing, and were well welcomed by the largest majority of the people. They have made many ties with them, and he misses them when he leaves.

He told many stories about how many times a day they have to blow up these ammunition dumps.. sometimes the size of huge rooms and up to five times a day. It is loaded with ammunitions still and they have a hard time keeping up with it.

He also told about how fast the Iraqies are repairing roads that are being constantly blown up.. It used to take a few days, and now they have the repairs down to an hour or less. The bridges still take a few days, but they never stop making the repairs faster and faster.

He told of a man that lived in the outskirts, and had two very big anti-tank? bombs outside his house and had been there for years and were all rusted out and falling apart. He put them on the back of his pick-up truck and drove them into town so the soldiers could blow them up for him. They took one look at the truck and turned white. They didn't dare move it, as it was so unstable that they had to blow it where it stood. It took out all the windows of the surrounding buildings in the area. How that man got it there is unbelievable and he turned pure white when they touched it off.

They bought that old guy a new pick-up truck so he was very thankful, and I'm sure felt very lucky to boot. ;)

He says that the media here has no idea how well Iraq is coming along. He is very glad to be there, and doesn't want to come back for good until things get better still.

I wish I could have heard all he had to say, and even remember all she was telling me, but I figured I'd relate what I could remember and tell you folks.

We had a great time at our favorite restaurant, and my son kept me in stitches all night.... and I have leftovers of Rack of Lamb, spinach pie and gravy covered Greek rice for supper... along with my sons pork chop.. lol.

A good time was had by all.... ;)