I hope all of you had a great New Years. I know we have all been fortunate this year. I had the good fortune of seeing some old friends who have done a great job of keeping up with each other. A friend named Kari asked me to send an email to someone I had not seen since high school.
This brave soul is in Kuwait right now and shipping off to Iraq soon. Please check out his blog at http://jeff.jls2.com/ and send him comments feed back and support.
An uncle of mine helped in the first Iraq (Army Medical) war during dessert storm and vowed to never go through that again. He retired when it was official Bush 2 was the new President elect. He was 2 years shy of 25 years service.
All politics aside, how has the war affected us directly? I do not believe we as Americans are in touch with the day-to-day events in the lives of these soldiers. Both set-backs and triumphs. I have not been involved at any length to do very much about the soldiers. I am not pointing fingers.
Congress will be giving themselves yet another raise. Our soldiers had their pay package increase (.5-3.% range) vetoed. Let your congressfolk know, we can help in a small way, right?
Peace-
Thanks to Jeff and the thousands of others soldiers out there doing what I and most the rest of us have been avoiding.
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