Outside of a few quick visits, which were strewn with grief over an illness and a family death, I will have spent over a year separated from my wife and baby.
I'll be deploying again in the Summer of next year, and as yet, we don't know to where.
I didn't get to Iraq last time, but some of our guys did. I asked to go, but they kept me in the Med hunting weapons smugglers. Some other stuff I can't talk about, too. It wasn't the safest missions, though.
I actually SAW the beheading, as I did those of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl. The videos are available.
It's one of the reasons I have NO tolerance for those who slam and deride this country. Whenever I see something as soul-cauterizing as that, and the other things I've seen, I cannot stop thinking that those people, regardless of where they came from or what their beliefs were, are my brothers. I felt the same way on 9-11.
There are those who pick and choose which part of America they like, and enjoy hating the rest. I DISAGREE with the Left, but I'll give my life to defend THEIR freedom and Liberty the same as I would ANY countryman. I can wish for and work for their political defeat without wishing for their horrible deaths and those of other Americans.
There are those who pick and choose which part of America they like, and enjoy hating the rest. I DISAGREE with the Left, but I'll give my life to defend THEIR freedom and Liberty the same as I would ANY countryman. I can wish for and work for their political defeat without wishing for their horrible deaths and those of other Americans.
*** You are a better person than I am. I salute you.