Subject: Re: This doesn't look like Kansas!
Author: 3haw-@bluefrog.biz
Date: Nov 9, 2003, 5:54 PM
Post ID: 1715158710
David, WHoever you are stay safe over there. We are supporting you back
here. Your Guzzi is waiting for you. Bob
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From: <psabr-@aol.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:02 PM
Subject: This doesn't look like Kansas!
You know, Iraq isnt all that bad. The weather has been fantastic,beautiful skies, warm days and cool nights. More stars than I've seen in
many years. Only problem is that my bike is 8000 miles away and I cant work
in it.
cold running water, showers and flush toilets. Some or all of these work,
Actually, life isn't too bad over here as a civilian. We have hot and
just not all at once. The foods pretty good at the mess halls, but I eat
about half my meals as MRE's.
The first couple of weeks were fairly exiting. Several times a night you
I've been at Camp Anaconda, near Balad, Iraq, for about two weeks now.
would hear mortar shells landing somewhere on the base. They's usually stop
after the army answered with a 155mm cannon. It's been fairly quiet since
then, or else I've just slept through them all. Been really quiet since
Ramadan started on the 27th.
can practice polishing my aluminum bits, broken cables, wiring harnesses,
All I can say is I'm looking forward to getting back home in a year so I
and putting my Ambassador on the road again, finally.
Y'all take er easy,
David Whitmore