In My Own Words

It’s Christmas Eve at my house, but in the sandbox and the ‘Stan, it’s Christmas Day. I wish our troops were all back home with their families, as I’m sure they wish the same even more than I do! I was chatting with one of our Warriors over there, when in mid-conversation he said “Mortars [...]

Rodney Carrington has a new Christmas album out (no, it’s not a comedy album, nor is it his usual “raunchy” style) with a song on it titled “Camouflage and Christmas Lights.” One of my friends at work had told me about the song and said I really needed to hear it, so I Googled “Rodney [...]

First I got an e-mail from one of my Marines in Afghanistan, with a picture attached. The picture is of him raising the Tennessee State flag at the FOB where he’s stationed. He has friends in Greeneville (which is where Nolichuckey Bluffs is; our favorite vacation spot) that he’s sending the flag to. In the [...]

Well, not just to Iraq; got some on the way to Afghanistan, as well. Jack and I dropped off four packages this morning. One was a very small box (the customs form was bigger than the box), headed for a young man in Iraq who has insisted on letters only, but I couldn’t let him [...]

My day started with my Warrior Randy, who is currently in Iraq, buzzing me on IM as soon as I turned on the computer, to tell me his wallet was $20 lighter. I replied “$20 lighter, huh? What happened?” He said “It’s the darndest thing; $20 fell out of my pocket and landed in this [...]

Jennifer and her friend Lynn got their students to write letters and draw pictures to send to our troops. She brought me a big stack of them on Monday, and I looked through them before sending them on. They’re absolutely priceless; the troops will LOVE them! My favorite was the one that said “I think [...]

I got another FREE MAIL today, from a Soldier in Afghanistan. The letter is dated August 10th, the postmark is September 4th, and here it finally is, in my mailbox on October 22nd. Obviously Cletus the Slack-Jawed Snail carried that one. I can understand the date the letter was written and the postmark being so [...]