[Timeout]

Bag Cams
Barking dogs
Achmed
Pretty Chicken

and, of course,

BELLY GIRL!

Apologies to anyone I left off the ping list...and I know there are a lot of you! Null & void..do you have a ping list?

[MEG33]

Thanks for the memories.I was so new,and found that sharing a war can be much better than worrying about or supporting our troops alone.God bless our armed forces and I thank them for the magnificent job.

[nopardons]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....memories. :-)

[Howlin]

For old times sake - and to remember the times we had -- and the people we lost.

[Peach]

I'd forgotten Belly Girl. That was quite a time...intense.

[baseballmom]

LOL, I should have know you guys would put up Belly Girl first thing.

Oh well, it wouldn't be a thread without her.

[Ophiucus]

LOL...Belly Girl was a requirement for every live thread.

[ErnBatavia]

[GOPyouth]

Here's a link that has all the daily threads on it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891441/posts

I don't know how to link it, so copy and paste will have to do.

I enjoyed chatting with everybody last year. It was amazing how a group of people could channel surf, webcam surf, and report quickly back on FR what was going on.

I will never forget Bellygirl. She was outstanding, and helped start each day off with a bang.

Achmed always seemed to appear somewhere on the baghdad cam.

I also laugh at people who would report bombing when wind would hit the microphone of the cameras.

Also, when a bomb would hit nearby, I loved the expressions of people immediately on the thread... it was usually "holy sh!t!! what was that?"

The war was somethign else for me. I could not get over the rate of speed news could travel. I salute those of you who stayed up with me each night (which was when I was on) reporting the progress of our brave troops/embedded reporters/and news anchors who worked long hours at FNC/MSNBC/(hate to mention CNN). Watching people like Leventhal and Ollie was amazing. Hearing those daunting sirens going off in Kuwait always caught my attention and made me stop what I was doing to watch.

And to top it all off, I will never forget the morning Baghdad fell. Somehow I woke up several hours before I usually would and got up to turn the tv on. FNC was reporting that reporters were venturing out in Baghdad b/c the officials had left. I stayed glued to the tv and computer and watched our guys roll into that city.

All of a sudden the greatest image of the Iraq war came when this big ass Bluto looking MF was whacking away with a sledgehammer at that statue. When those guys couldn't pull it down, in come the US troops to yank that big tall ugly MF statue which I had to look at every single day during that war down. Seeing those people jump on it and rip the head off, cheering and pulling hte head around the circle gave me chills. Seeing people enjoy freedom for the first time was a sight to see.

Again, thanks to all who helped out and started those threads. I remember it like it was yesterday, and I'm glad I shared it with everybody here.