my bil just emailed me, i got good news and bad news.

AlCzervik

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:15 PM
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my bil just emailed me, i got good news and bad news.

Edited on Fri Jan-11-08 11:18 PM by chimpsrsmarter

"Johnny arrived in Iraq 2 days ago" So the good news, he got there safe, the bad new, he's back in Iraq. 3rd tour there and he did almost a year in Afghanistan, with each deployment the dread meter goes up 3 clicks.

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fizzgig

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:19 PM
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1. i hope he gets home safely, too

:hug: to him and the family

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AlCzervik

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:21 PM
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2. thanks, i can't wait until he's out of the military.

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Aristus

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:42 PM
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7. Shit! When does he ETS?

How many times are they gonna send him back over there?

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AlCzervik

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:44 PM
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9. he's getting out in another 10 months supposedly and he wasn't supposed to be going back to iraq

thats what he was told, he went to training for 2 months in AZ. and then he was supposed to go elsewhere---not to Iraq and then he got orders to go to Iraq. I doubt he'll be out in 10 months.

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:26 PM
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3. Damn!

x(

I hope he comes home safe and sound again. And I hope the assholes who started these wars get some of the costs thrown in their own laps... Soon.

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AlCzervik

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:35 PM
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4. my bil was in the army for 30 years and has just given up on washington.

what worries me more is how worried my bil is this time, he's usually a pretty cool customer but when i talked to him on Christmas day he was all choked up.

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ThomCat

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:39 PM
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6. I will be thinking good thoughts

and I hope his worries are unfounded. :hug:

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:39 PM
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5. My dear chimpsrsmarter!

Well, I'm glad he got there safely!

Now let's get him home the same way!

His third tour? How obscene...:grr:

Stay safe, Johnny...:hug:

Hugs to you, sweetie...:hug: :hug:

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AlCzervik

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:42 PM
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8. Obscene is exactly the right word fir it Peggy.

i told my daughter this afternoon he was going again and she just cried like the last 2 times, it's hard for me, unbearable for his parents but it must be really strange for a 13 year old that her cousin is in a war zone.

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