Posted on 04/20/2005 1:20:17 PM PDT by mystery-ak
Edited on 04/20/2005 3:25:13 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
TexKat has learned that her son has been injured in Iraq. TexKat posts the daily Operation Phantom Fury Thread....she has left her workplace and has returned to her home to await details....
Thank all of you praying Freepers and please continue to pray for mine and for all others that are in harms way. My son took a licking and is lower back sore but still ticking, thank God.
I talked to him while he was still in the hospital in Baghdad (I guess that is where the hospital is.) and then he is scheduled to be flown back to camp later. God has spared him again.
From what I gather this was an ambush, yes near the Abu Ghraib area. He was 5th in the convoy and there was a van that was stopped on the side of the road. After a bit they noticed that the van began to move. The driver of the van pulled up alongside of the M1070 that my son was driving, smiled and then blew himself and everything around him up. My son was thrown from the truck and landed on his back. He stated that the heat from the fire from the truck penetrating on his face brought him to, and at that time he began to empty his rifle. The terrorist enemies were there shooting but were not in sight, evidently shooting from enclosed vacilities, just like a few weeks ago in the same area of Abu Ghraib.
The passenger soldier that was in the M1070 with my son broke his arm (his shooting arm)at the elbow I believe and was or will be flown to Germany. My son was a little shaken, but said that he was a bit calm now after talking with the chaplain, being interviewed by CIA, etc.
This incident today was said to be a new technique by the terrorist crazies.
Please keep SSG. Smith in your prayers as well as all of our sons and daughters that are giving so much for freedom for us and for the Iraqis.
May God bless all of you.
TexKat
A US Army soldier passes by destroyed Army vehicles after a car bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy in an area of western Baghdad, Iraq, where the notorious Abu Ghraib prison is located, setting a US Army convoy on fire, Wednesday, April 20, 2005. No casualities were reported. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
praying now....
Urgent prayers for her son and all who love him.
Praying with you now.
Prayers up
please post updates when you hear.
Praying now for healing and comfort.
Prayers sent, and will continue to do so.
praying right now!
Thanks for the thread -- prayers being sent for her son and all that know him. Keep us posted please.
Heavenly Father - Please HELP - We pray in the precious Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Master - Amen.
Prayers for TexKat and her son. Thanks to him for his service. May his recovery be swift and complete and may good news soon calm her heart.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Sorry...in my haste...that should read TexKat...I've already asked the Mods to correct it.
I'm praying for him too.
Praying along!
Prayers for her and her son.
Praying for her and her son.
Prayers said for TexKat's son and whole family. Please keep us updated!
Prayers coming from our house.
I am joining in prayer. I just pray also for peace in Iraq. The terrorist seem to be getting more angry and desperate.
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