Another Sunday - Original Post 20 May 2007

Another Sunday has arrived today. Sundays are especially hard for me. I seem to spend more time "surfing the net"...looking for clues....looking for answers...looking for reassurance...but I find none. I cannot find the answer to our problem. How to stabilize Iraq so all our soldiers can come home. I find myself looking at You Tube-searching-and I find the tributes...and I start to cry. Don't do that! I tell myself...but I continue all the same.
My favorite song right now is "American By God's Amazing Grace" by Luke Strickland. Luke is a soldier from Arkansas-National Guard if I remember correctly-that spent his time in Iraq. He had family and friends always asking him how he was doing "over there". What were his thoughts...did we need to be there....etc. so he wrote this song. Apparently it went around in emails and then "Nashville heard his song". 1 week after returning from Iraq-he found himself in a recording studio! My son sent this to me a while back...saying it is EXACTLY HOW HE FEELS...I listen to it every morning and every evening...and many days-numerous times in between! Anything to bring me closer to my soldier.
The members of the 118th MP CO are coming to grips now with the extension. I search the internet looking for info on where they will be heading...but find very little...and what I do find...is not that soothing...I thought they would be in a less dangerous place...but now I am not sure...I only hope and pray that they will be...Any change causes emotions to fly. The unknown is so much harder than what we know at this very moment in time. I trust that they will do their best, do their duty and come home to us safe and secure.
I am posting today the interview of my son on May 4 for Talking With Heroes. www.talkingwithheroes.com I thought he did an outstanding job...he says "I stumbled through it". The portion of the other guests that evening is not available as there was a "technical glitch", however, the interviews will occur again on June 4th at 7 p.m. CDT. I look forward to "telling our story" once again!
That is about it on this end for today. I talked briefly with my son this morning. He is doing good...that is what he always tells me....so I hope and pray that "good is really good".
Head down, eyes open, I love you.