"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
~~Richard Bach
Rose Lage helps her son, Staff Sgt. Michael Lage, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, on Dec. 7. Lage was injured in Iraq, the only survivor of a blast that killed four others. Rose Lage is among the many women struggling to care for loved ones wounded in Iraq. [Read more →]
Another year has come and gone. Another year of life that was lived, sometimes by the seat of my pants, and sometimes in a time warp where a minute felt like a month. My life has been turned upside down, inside out and backside outward by this thing called the Army. I have felt ankle deep, waist deep and neck deep in the Hooah! at times. I think that knee deep is still a pretty good measure for where I tend to fall on the average day.
We have faced deployment, extended deployment, movement in the battlefield, no communication from either soldier for a while, wounds, injuries, leave times, chaptering out, and rehabbing to go back in.
My life has changed beyond what was recognizable to me. [Read more →]
An absolutely beautiful and touching story of an unlikely match made in heaven. Grab your tissue for this one! I originally found this on RN.
GI saves Iraqi boy in long-shot adoption
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER, Associated Press Writer
LINK to article
Capt. Scott Southworth knew he’d face violence, political strife and blistering heat when he was deployed to one of Baghdad’s most dangerous areas. But he didn’t expect Ala’a Eddeen.
Ala’a was 9 years old, strong of will but weak of body — he suffered from cerebral palsy and weighed just 55 pounds. [Read more →]
Water boarding, anyone? I say water board them day and night until we recover our soldiers, and if they are not alive, then offer these scum bags the same fate. Terrorists are not soldiers… they are not civilians. They are a ruthless, lawless, band of vagabond criminals — it’s time to treat them as they are. [Read more →]
Army to Get More Stryker Recon Vehicles
Army News Service
C. Todd Lopez
December 20, 2007(excerpt)
LINK to articleWASHINGTON - The Army now has authorization to purchase 95 more Stryker nuclear, biological and chemical reconnaissance vehicles, in addition to 10 already in Iraq and several others used for testing and training. [Read more →]
Got a call from my soldier at 2:30 in the morning on Christmas. He was in the hospital at Balad AFB. He had arrived earlier that day (which was very early Christmas morning Iraqi time). It wasn’t anything too serious, but he did have a touch of the D-Fac blues that caused him to vomit blood for a day. So, on Christmas he was in a clean, comfy bed with morphine and nurses waiting on him hand and foot.It makes the gifts and the Christmas fudge I sent to him pale in comparison.
I don’t know what he has planned for the New Year, but I hope he plans on eating an MRE instead of finding his way back to the hospital.
Get well, hon, and chewable Pepto tabs are on the way.
Well folks Christmas is almost here! Black Five put together a great video “greeting and thank you” for the troops. I sent my video in, but realized later that it was not in the right format. So, I am also posting my own thank you!
And our thank you…
