A friend, whose Marine son is in Fallujah, and I spoke last week and he began weeping. He was proud of his son's service, but worried. His son had sent him a parcel, no phone call for three days..and he usually calls every two, three days. The father was frustrated because of the lack of socks, underwear, everyday necessities, including G.P.S. systems. He said they had one for every seven Marines, so he bought one and sent it to his son. The bottom line is that America is one big family. Every single soldier over there is our son or daughter, and we keep them in our hearts and prayers.
BTTT
My friend is at Task Force Echo, in Diwanyah. He's a 43 year old father of 2 little kids, Nat Guard not regular army.
He was in Bosnia for 18 months about 3 years ago, now this.
Every time I hear of a heli going down my stomach lurches BAD.
I recently sent him a big box that all of us at work had contributed to - we didn't know what he needed so there was a lot of toilet paper in there.
LQ