My Friend's Son is Home on a 8 Day Leave Before Heading to Iraq

Well, the news that Craig's boy David was actually going to Iraq hit me harder than I thought it would. It brought back memories of my son's calls home to me from Iraq in 2005/06 and the composure I had to maintain as he let me in on parts of the terror and all the boredom. He has since told me that it was an adventure and fun except for the sheer terror from time to time. We are thankful he came back in one piece and he has the nightmares that haunt him but God willing they will mellow out.

So David is heading out to Iraq shortly and will have similar duties that Fernando had but not as a sapper, thank God. He is involved in guarding the roads leading to an air base and that sounds like convoy work. I do hope he is the mechanic that stays inside the wire and repairs vehicles. The parents suffer too as their loved ones head off to war and I know it is on Craig's mind all the time. I found myself, in the beginning, weepy if someone asked me a question and my emotions were close to the surface.