Wednesday, June 15, 2005
6/15/05 A Note from Iraq
As I have mentioned before in the Blackblog, My brother in-law Tony is a U.S. Marine serving in Fallujah, Iraq. Sabrina and I don’t get to here from him very often, but he dropped us an email last week. I know ALL of us keep our service men & women in our thoughts and prayers, so I decided to share, with Tony’s permission part of his message.
"It's Tony here. I know it's been a while and I apologize. Sometimes it's hard to tell when a day starts and when it ends.
So It’s June 9, or Tessa (9) Jose-Rahn, and I got off work early cuz supposedly we may switch to three 8 hour shifts instead of two 12 hours. I've calmed down a lot. They gave me a meritorious mast (it's like a paper award for doing well) cuz They thought I am doing very good. Also cuz of how much Arabic I am learning. I didn't think I deserved it, but apparently, they did. It was me and someone from 3rd platoon who got one as well.
This deployment is going slow as hell. There's so much going on that I want to talk about but can't. I can't say anything, but there's been some interesting sh*t that has happened since we've been here. It's fu**ing amazing. But for what I'm allowed to tell you, same sh*t, different day.
I'm doing good. I hope you all are too."
Sabrina and I have been together for more than 8 years, so I have know Tony since he was 11, and it still feel’s a little strange to recognize that he is all grown up and performing a function that most us will appreciate but will never fully understand.
Black Out.
¶ 8:52 AM
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