Mission Ready! Original Post 19 August 2006

I heard from my soldier on Wednesday. He was hot and tired. Said they had been doing daily missions. Said where they were at was really dirty, that sewage was dumped in the middle of the street. Said it stunk!
We are excited that they are getting internet in their rooms. It will be much easier to talk with him once that happens.
Vonage phone service has a "v-phone" that will allow us to talk if they have a broadband connection. The device is $39.00. It looks like a jump drive-it plugs into a usb port on their computer-then they can dial any phone number, and they will be able to talk and listen using the included headphones! This will be better than using Yahoo messenger! If anyone is interested in this, please let me know. I can send you an invitation email-if you activate an account-we both get a free month of service! And service is $25.00 per month. An added bonus is that the device will store 256 megabytes of information. They can store music-or photos on this. It is an actual "jump drive".
Often I reflect on our soldiers and how we feel having them so far away. I think of all those wives and mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, in times gone past who sent their loved one off to war. Their soldier left and they didn't hear from them for months if at all! Just think, during WWII, even letters were censored. The mail they did receive was full of holes-where they were read by whom ever before you got them and words were cut out because they said too much. Technology is a wonderful thing. I don't know how they did this not ever hearing from their soldier. I keep my phone with me constantly. I don't want to miss that phone call. And if I don't hear from him for a few days, I start to panic a little-then I remember not hearing is a good thing!
Hope everyone is doing well. We almost two months under our belts now. Only 10 more to go! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!