My brother's unit
arrived in Iraq last Tuesday. On Friday a report about three servicemen killed in Basra, no names given totally freaked me out...until I got home from work, accessed my e-mail, got out a map, and realized he was actually hundreds of miles away. Spent the weekend feeling really stupid. I need a big black-and-white outline map of Iraq to color in provinces and label cities, like you do with the U.S. in grade school (or used to, anyway).
Chatted with him on Facebook for an hour or so tonight, mostly about Star Trek (don't ask).
Here's a photo of him (bald spot and glasses, he says) and some of his fellow soldiers hanging out in Kuwait.
Everything's been quiet so far--he says "war is boring"--and it can just stay that way as far as I'm concerned. :)
2 comments:
The thoughts and prayers of a nation are with him and your family.
Thanks, Patrick--I'll pass that on next postcard.
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