Gone

I said goodbye to my father. He's on his way to Iraq.

True, he'll be stationed in the states for a few months before going, but he's still not coming home until 2007.

Frankly, I'm a little worried. Not just for my Dad (he is getting up there in years), but also for the Iraqi people. He and I have run thru some scenarios, and he doesn't play war nicely. His first priority is victory, and politics are close to the bottom. In certain situations, he could very well escalate the war over there. We'll see.


The hardest part about the separation is that he won't be around to teach me Judo. He's been doing the sport for decades (well, so have I, but only half his time) and he knows things I've only begun to grasp. In this area at least, I still need him.


So yeah, expect to hear more about Iraq in the next year or two. Definately.



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I'm back!!!

I have returned from a very long family reunion camping trip. Three days driving each way. Ugh.

But the vacation was really cool. I got to see folks I hadn't been with for years. Good to see them again.

All the more poinent because my Dad is going to Iraq at the end of the month. He'll be gone for over a year. Actually this trip helped my with that, because it'd been longer than that since I'd seen most everybody there.

My cousin went to Iraq for a year, he was one of the first ones to go in. Had some interesting insight into the whole thing.


Well, thats enough for now. I'm going to be posting more often, and about how I'd make the world more to my likeing.




Tally ho!
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