5 for Christmas
Sunday, 25 December 2005 | 179 readers so far
[album:3,1:r]I’ve been taking five photos each of people in the unit to share with their loved ones on Christmas Day. I would like to thank everyone who has supported me via this blog and other means on this most special of holidays. This morning, as I was leaving breakfast, the insurgents tried to give me a Christmas present in their soulless manner. They dropped two mortars near my location. They missed. I suppose wars don’t stop because one side or the other is celebrating something, but it still seems uncivilized to try and randomly blow people up on Christmas Day. I woudn’t do it.
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Enjoy the pictures, and remember to enjoy your own loved ones today. It would be so easy for someone evil to come and take them away from you. I’m away from my family, but I want them to know I love them, and I believe that what I am doing here, in some small way, is going to ripple everywhere.
Christmas has a lot of meaning for me. It evokes images of family and friends celebrating together. I’m sorry to miss that this year. I especially want my wife to know that she’s missed. Have a good day with Mom & Dad today honey. Enjoy your time together, I’m glad we got to talk on the phone.
For the family and friends who are here to get a glimpse of your own loved ones, enjoy! And to my unit, I hope that you have many more Christmas celebrations ahead, and that your son, wife, aunt or cousin enjoys a glimpse of you today.
1 December 25th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Jake says:
I am glad to hear you are safe. I also want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and for any soldiers reading I want to say thank you.
2 December 25th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
Dad says:
Good morning (EST) son,
May you have a Joyous as well as a Merry Christmas.
Thanks for sending your love. I know you know it’s reciprocal! I’m very thankful no one was hit by those two mortars. I guess that happened sometime after our phone conversations.
Mom and I are have a great time here with Barb. The salmon dinner last night was great as usual. Barb is a little concerned about the turkey today, but I’m sure she and “mom” will get it right!
I woke early with Liberty Tax Service on my mind. With two offices to get ready, employees to confirm, promotions to do, etc., there is a lot to be done. With the web, flash drives, Bill Gates software, etc, its so easy to work away from home. When Mom and Barb wake up in a couple of hours, I’ll switch back to enjoying Christmas Day. Let me know of friends that need their taxes done. I’ll do five free during January before things get really hectic.
Probably not today, but maybe tomorrow the three of us will see the Naria movie. Mom and I have heard it’s really good. We were reminiscing that many years ago, you learned to read by yourself, using the Narnia books. Mom recalls that she read them to you twice and said you would have to read them by yourself the third time . . . and you did!
I trust the remainder of your day goes well. Remember the Serenity Prayer. I could serve you and your buddies well on the “downer” days.
Blessings,
Love, Dad
3 December 25th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Barry says:
Dear Trevordamus,
I was doing a little research, and here is what one of your newer buddies was looking forward to! I wonder what she meant by that?!
“Holy crap. It looks like we’ll be attached to a National Guard Public Affairs unit from Georgia.”
Hey, those were great nighttime pics you took of the palace, pool and palm trees! You should become a photographer!
Blessings,
4 December 25th, 2005 at 4:42 pm
Trevor says:
I don’t know what she meant by that. I’ll ask her tommorrow. She has the day off and only the noncommissioned and commissioned officers have to work, Barry
Have a good Christmas Day.
5 December 25th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
orlando says:
Trevor did not take those pictures. This is a scandal.
6 December 26th, 2005 at 9:15 am
Mudville Gazette says:
our best to celebrate Christmas here in Al Taji this year! This was our Camo-Net Christmas Tree! “When in Iraq -Improvise!” and improvise we did. Best wishes to all those back home and around the world! Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! 5 for Christmas — [A Will to Exist - in Iraq] visit 5 for ChristmasI’ve been taking five photos each of people in the unit to share with their loved ones on Christmas Day. I would like to thank everyone who has supported me via this blog and other means on this
7 December 27th, 2005 at 4:06 am
kat-missouri says:
We love you all and we were thinking of you this Christmas. Thank you for your service.
Isaiah 58:10-12 (King James Version)
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10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
11And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
8 December 27th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Trevor says:
Yes, Trevor took the pictures above, with the exception of the ones of him.
Thanks everyone for your holiday wishes.