Re: my nephew

A special thank you to your nephew and all the brave men and women serving in our armed forces. We pray for all to stay out of harm's way. I spoke to my Congresswoman, Jo Ann Davis, today and she told me that every service person has body armor and that armor for all vehicles has been purchased and is either already there and being installed or shortly will be. Thank God your nephew's unit had it when they needed it. Verona

----- 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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