There's a storm coming... It's gonna suck...

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"There's a storm coming our way tonight, and it's going to be bad. It's hot. It's muggy. Hotter than it's been in a long time. The sky is dark and full of clouds and as I look off at the horizon it's brown. That can only mean wind blown sand and dust. Lightning is striking all around us, some of the strikes even casting shadows on the ground, and the rain has started to fall. Before long it's going to be raining mud. It's gonna suck!"

BeforeTheStorm

our son's e-mail from May 10th 2004, Mosul, Iraq...

I've permanently posted this email here - as the blog's most current post - because the title aptly describes this blog and "our" deployment experience.