Got an email today from my son and best friend E who's 22 and in the Navy on PC boats. Only 28 people on the, boarding ships and looking for contraband. He ran half a marathon, 13 miles the other day on an oil platform in the middle of the Persian Gulf. As he said I guess I can check that one off my list and I doubt any of my friends will ever do this. I really miss the guy. It really hit me today as I look out the window here of our shop at the cemetary across the street where they are burying SSgt Tony Wojciechowski. Ssgt Wojciechowski is not the first Iraq war vetern I have seen buried outside my window. He is also the second soilder to be killed in Iraq at the local high school, Glen Este. Matt Maupin was the first where he was captured in an ambush and later executed. Dot Tone Dan donated art work for a baseball tournament they did here for a scholarship fund in his name and again I would like to thank him. As I see the flags lined up and down the street here I am thankful for people like him, the others that gave their lives, those that serve and my son that put other people ahead of themselves in this world. I am also thankful for people that I see have come over here that have offered there help just because they are as my son says "Good People".

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