Happy New Year! Yep it is OT

[cybor462]

Wanted to wish all a wondrous New Year!
I have not really been online much since November. I have not followed the board and miss the great stuff you guys do.
I went to Texas to visit George Bush oops I mean to see my son graduate basic and then he had Christmas leave so he spent 10 days with us. He just flew back to Florida Monday to finish up his tech school. He then goes to Washington (state) for survival school, then to the Rangers jump school and finally to Lane's state of Louisiana for Stryker training (new armored vehicle) and then he will visit the sunny sand filled paradise of Iraq in January 09.

Hope all you guys are having fun. I will spend a few hours seeing what I missed.

[TECHSHOP]

I didn't "keep up" with the BBS in NOV and DEC, but there was "an one man shop" that went up in smoke down your way. When I check in here, I didn't see any of your pesky question posts , and thought well just maybe...

I've been told that Iraq is a "much better" place since I left...

[cybor462]

I know, I am still around oh darn!
where you in the military? If so what branch? My son is a crazy bugger and has told us since he was 6 that he was going to be special forces and now he is. He does not have to deploy, he volunteered.
It is a 4 month tour but he can stay up to year and he said he will.

May have a different outlook after being there.

[Your Old Dog]

Nice to see you again!

And God Bless your son and all the others who have the stones to finish what the negotiators can't as someone needs to do it.

[cybor462]

Thanks YOD it is surprising to me that when I have been with my son (he is always in uniform now) people come up to him and thank him for what he is doing. Far cry from the Nam era. It is good people appreciate it. It has to be done whether some may admit it. No matter what I can't ever imagine a world in peace. It would be fantastic if it were but I am not holding my breath. As long as the world runs on money there will always be war. No way around it.

Anyway thanks, I will tell my son you thanked him. He is still very young and he enjoys being needed. Age has a way of changing a persons outlook on anything.