Re: my nephew

Andrea, glad your cousin made it back ok.  I just hope they don't turn
around and deploy him again.
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrea H" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] my nephew


> Kitty, glad to know he is doing OK, but hope he gets to come home soon! My
> cousin made it home from Afghanistan, received a medal for all the
missions
> he flew in his helo. Just very glad he got back safe. I will keep Sam in
my
> prayers.
> A
>
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: "Agardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 8:57 PM
> 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/101104dnintwreckers.4cc6.html
> >
> > Kitty
> >
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