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 [...]

We’ve been supporting our troops long enough now that we’re finding ourselves with quite a number of “repeaters.” I was going through the contact updates on AnySoldier, not that we need another to support at the moment, when I found a name I recognized as a Soldier we adopted in 2007 when he was deployed [...]

Thank you to all who have signed my guestbook so far, and especially to my Warriors who have signed. I was pleased to see an entry this evening by one of the female Warriors we adopted a couple of years ago, SPC Dana Atkinson. She also left a comment on the Comment page. Looks like [...]