Re: Re: my nephew

Great news about your cousin Andrea - I hope they all come home SOON.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
Sent: 10/11/2004 11:36:50 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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