Re: my nephew

I might consider it, but really, there's not much on Sam.  The article is
about the independent contractor.
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] my nephew


> 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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