I just stumbled across a book that really grabbed my attention. It’s called CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES: HOW HEROES TURN TRAGEDY INTO TRIUMPH. There are military stories scattered throughout the book, but the book is more than a military history book. It’s more of a “history of heroes” book. The stories are powerful and engaging. The stories track the common principles that heroes have been following for thousands of years. The stories in this book will provide much needed encouragement and inspiration to the troops and to their loved ones back home. It confirms that we are making a difference and it explains how and why. The author is donating several hundred signed copies to our troops in Iraq. You can download the first two chapters at www.dancastro.com

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I found myself searching for deploying units today. I was looking for units that were leaving sometime next year. After about a half hour of looking I thought to myself, what am I doing?

Sometimes I get these waves of needing to go back. It has lessened in the past few months but it is still deeply engrained. I see my duffle bags in the garage and think. Hmm, I wonder if I bought a ticket to Germany, I bet I could get to Iraq. The fantasy quickly fades when my two-year-old daughter walks in and she says that she went potty on the big girl toilet. No lie, it’s verbatim. She amazes me.

I know that I will be sent back at some point. It is an inevitable fate that I gladly accept. I don’t know what it is. I cannot comprehend not serving. I just can’t grasp trying to avoid going back. I know it puts a burden on my family, it holds up my employer but dammit if it weren’t for willing Soldiers. Then all of this would not exist. We live in a time when people want to hurt all that we have. We haven’t had to defend our beloved country is years. It’s time to mount up and accept that this is not going away.

For a while I have avoided discussing a certain person who has been protesting outside the Bush vacation home. I feel bad that she lost a child but I will not condone a person who is going to trash talk my fellow Soldiers. I am so tempted to go off but I will refrain to save face. My buddy Blackfive did a nice write-up today about Specialist Casey Sheehan. This is how I would appreciate his memory.

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