stoney321 ([personal profile] stoney321) wrote2004-07-12 04:17 pm

Happy Homecoming for a soldier

I just heard that my friend's husband has safely landed in the US after being in Iraq for almost 2 years now. He was an MP and was dealing with the daily firefights in Bahgdad. Glad you're home safe and in one piece! To my friend: I'm amazed that you held it together with your girls these past two years. You rose to the challenge with grace, and raised two beautiful girls in your husband's absence.

Read this from Walt Whitman, and find it still relevant today:

The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
To the ... [men} stricken by wounds... at some time in the course of the contest were of more significance even than the politcal interests involved. Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background of countless minor scenes and interiors...the real war will never get in the books.

Glad you're home, D.

[identity profile] ennuigrrl.livejournal.com 2004-07-12 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank goodness your friend's husband is okay.

P.S. Strangers with Candy... ROCKS!!!

[identity profile] chantal87.livejournal.com 2004-07-12 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
This is such wonderful news.
My husband was there for almost a year. He had to leave Iraq a few months before his unit. (He had a stroke)
So glad to hear your friends husband is okay. That place is a total hell hole.
Ooh and yeah For Strangers with Candy icon.

[identity profile] kumi.livejournal.com 2004-07-12 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That's wonderful. It's always nice to hear a good news!