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EMAIL from a battle captain of Stryker in Baghdad, now back from emergency family leave. EMAIL from our contact at Ramadi follows it.

BAGHDAD
Patty -

I'm back in Baghdad. I came back to some nice boxes of treats, please pass along my thanks to ** and [my optometrist]. I watched Flight 93 and it definitely gave me a renewed sense of purpose in this fight. I know it is mostly speculation, but man, I thought the movie portrayed the severity of the situation and the absolute heroism that took place on that plane.

Sorry to hear about your mother. I took care of my elderly great aunt and uncle for awhile in college and I can assure you, it is no easy task you are about to embark on. While I'm sure it'll be nice for you to have your mother close, there will inevitably be many tough times ahead for you and your husband. I wish you luck.

Things are crazy here and it is interesting to be in the epicenter of it all. Situations we work through are sometimes reported in near real time on the news. It reminds me of when you are in an electronics store and you walk by the video cameras that film you and you know how you wave your arm around to see it move on the TV screen?

Well, things are like that sometimes. We'll get a report from a platoon that they have found 7 dead bodies killed execution style and shortly afterwards, the news will report 9 dead bodies found. Later on, we find out there was actually 9. It's crazy.

My wife is doing much better. Her sister replaced me for a week, but she is now on her own. She says she stills wears out easily, but things are getting better a little bit each day. She has even started back to work (she works from home on the computer, so it's not too strenuous). The biggest challenge is doing the single mommy thing.

Just out of curiousity, what kind of doctor are you?

Thanks again for all your support,
SPM

RAMADI
Hello from Mr and Mrs P**, LOL.

The letter [to AnnaZ's son] was my pleasure.

I will be back in Iraq around the *** (my bday....yeahhh) [So, mail out the Halloween candy to Ramadi, AnnaZ and SwatTeam, and anyone else who wants to volunteer]

We got extended until mid to end march. I will catch better up with you when I get back and lots of pics to go round.

Thanks for everything
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A Company Stryker at BAGHDAD:
Pat,
I am working on some pics and will send them real soon. I distribute the packages that you send evenly, so there is not really any Soldiers that would require individual packages. Thanks again for all of the support

***

Thank you for the ping

bttt

Reminder for you that Monday is Colombus Day don't go to the post office this year :0)

Thanks for all the updates. I got a sweet thank you card from the psyop contact in Afghanistan yesterday. I am guessing that is your contact there. If you know of any other requests they have I will gladly do what I can to get some in the mail when I mail the boxes to Ramadi next week. Or I can have some things sent from Amazon. Chris got his DVD on the 16th, just like Amazon predicted.

Thank you for your Every Ping, my Dearest Sister, and Rangerwife's Husband is still in my Prayers.

Our Lord Mightily Bless the Wonderful Kindness you are Doing for your Sweet Mother!