RE: my nephew

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: RE: [CHAT] my nephew
• From: &* <j*@prairieinet.net>
• Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:17:06 -0500
• In-reply-to: <007701c4aff6$6c220140$05ec3544@newhvn01.in.comcast.net>

Glad to hear he survived this..... praying he (and all others) come home
soon.

I bet it was nice to see him, even if it was just on line. Maybe you
should tell the Ft Wayne newspaper to rerun the article, since it is his
hometown.

Donna



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Kitty
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 7:57 PM
> To: Agardenchat
> Subject: [CHAT] my nephew
> 
> I just got an update from my sister about my nephew Sam. He was
> interviewed
> for an article in the Dallas News.  There's also a photo. (great to
see
> his
> face again!!)  You can't read the article unless you log in which I'm
sure
> most of you wouldn't want to do.  The article is about a wrecker crew
in
> Iraq and how they have to go out at all hours to..." A military police
> unit
> was blasted by a roadside bomb on patrol in northwest Baghdad.
American
> soldiers are standing on a blockaded street in the dark, waiting for a
> wrecker to retrieve their battered Humvee."
> 
>  The only part about Sam is that his is the debilitated humvee they
are
> picking up:
> 
> "Mr. Compton hops out of the truck and directs the driver of a 40-foot
> Landoll flatbed up to the Humvee, whose extra-armored steel doors are
> pocked
> with ball bearings and shrapnel. The tires are shredded, and the thick
> side
> windows shattered.
> 
> The Humvee's driver, Spc. Sam Stahlhut, 20, of Fort Wayne, Ind., limps
> around the wreck, amazed that everyone on the 21st Military Police
Company
> patrol walked away from the attack.
> 
> "That ball of fire came right at my face. I guess the extra armor
really
> works," he said. "This is my fourth IED (improvised explosive
device)."
> 
> Full article -with Sam's smiling face!! -
> 
>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/dmn/stories/101104dnint
wr
> eckers.4cc6.html
> 
> Kitty
> 
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