War, Why?

(Real quick, Lonnie I would love to have dinner with you all. Of course I will need to talk with Michael when he gets home.)

But not right away. I was able to talk with him last night for just a little bit and it seems what they are doing there is effecting him. He didn't sound like himself. I'm a little worried. What little he told me is that they are trying to simulate what it is like in Iraq as much as possible. So I've tried to let some family know that he may need a little space when he first comes home. He even said they have about 300 hundred Iraq people there playing the part of insergents.

My cousin Josh is a leuitenant and a platoon commander. His platoon has recently been hit. He told the family that they where out in a convoy when a man approched them. Apparently the man had a bomb straped to him and detinated the bomb right beside them. I'll leave out the gorry part but there was nothing left and what was left you could'nt tell what was what. Some of the fragments hurt some of the men in his platoon and had to be taken to the med-vac.

Right before this his men where out patroling on foot. They came across a group of insergents and were pinned down for four days by live fire. By the end of the four days two of his men where dead and another hurt so bad they don't think he'll live.

Pray for my cousin. He soon comes home after spending a year in Iraq. He's home for 30 days and then they are sending him to Afganistan. Pray for Michael. I don't know what he is doing. But all I know are the stories from my cousin and that Michael is training for the possibility of being sent to Iraq. Michael said the rumor is that his unit may-be going in 2009. If he goes, he's gone for a year! When you are in the military you hear the stories that civilians don't. Alot of solider are not ok when they come home.

When Michael and I spent the first nights together after he came back from basic, he would do push-ups in his sleep, in bed! (The drill sargents warned the families that the soilders may do weird things when they came home.) The first few times it scared me, until I realized what he was doing. Only once, but one night I got to experience some of Michael's hand to hand combat training that he was taught. Thankfully I got him to wake-up and stop chocking me. He felt awful but he said his dream was so real. I laugh now about it, but I'm worried if he is sent how he'll be when he comes home?! honestly I would just want him to come home. Hey, I could always learn some hand-to-hand combat training for bed at night.