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04-10-2006, 10:36 PM
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Troops in Iraq
do any of fu guys know how to check on people who are in iraq?
my friend went a few months ago and i was just wondering how he was doing. he's a marine, in fallujah(sp?) dont know much else. hes a driver... so that makes me kinda worried for him. 
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04-10-2006, 10:46 PM
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i know people there and they chat online when they are off "work"
they're in the army though my friend is in the marines and he said they are strict about playing around like that, by that i mean the army guys were playing online games. your friend maybe getting online access once in awhile per week
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04-11-2006, 12:33 AM
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Tell him to get a myspace and you can keep in touch through that.
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04-11-2006, 01:14 AM
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hes not all to computer savy. i mean i know myspace is pretty easy and all but he had a lil trouble with aim. lol
he was to busy doing things outdoors i guess.
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04-11-2006, 05:35 AM
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04-11-2006, 10:44 AM
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thx for the site.
i just looked at it. kinda scares me to look at a list to see if my friend from when i wan 5 yrs old is dead. dam...
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04-11-2006, 03:16 PM
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My son is over there now and so is his best bud from highschool. Your friend probably has internet access when he comes in off the field. But it would depend on how often or if he checks the e-mail address the mil gave him. My son's buddy has a myspace account and that is one of the ways we all keep in touch. Levi can also access yahoo messenger, but my son hasn't been around enough to do so.
(Levi is Army and Jer is Air Force, the AF is a bit stricter than the army about internet.) This is a site that is better than CNN if you are checking the lists of those lost: http://www.globalsecurity.org/ The list is part way down on the right. My son just lost his supervisor and friend a short while back and was himself injured.
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04-11-2006, 06:00 PM
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honestly, i guess you can blame it on ignorance but i never cared a single bit about whats going on in the war. but now that one of my best friends is there its now something that i think about all the time.
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04-11-2006, 06:48 PM
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That is undertstandable c-monster. For most people it's 'over there' and they don't want to think about it. My cousin was deployed in Iraq for a year in the beginning of the war so the war is very much in my families mind. My son lost his partner a little less than two weeks ago and was himself injured, and one of the other guys with them lost a leg to the IED call that went bad. Most people couldn't even tell you what an IED is. I can tell you all about them.
Suddenly people in town that never thought much about Iraq have been asking me a lot of questions about why my son is overseas, why his wife was in Qatar for 6 months and why my other son would enlist this past year of all times... I've had so many people ask me if I 'hate' the Iraqis now that my son was nearly killed. I tell them, "No, I don't hate the Iraqi people. But I despise the insurgents that won't let that country get on its feet and stable." People ask me how I can 'handle' having my son over there. Well...my son was going on calls to disarm IEDs. For every IED that his team successfully disarmed lives were saved. We may worry like heck about our son. But someone has to disarm those dayumed things. And he's good at what he does.
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