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612 days ago

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R.I.P.

612 days ago

He's gone... He barely made it home... I wrote that song when I got back from a year deployment to Iraq, embedded with the Iraqis. And now he is one of them. He wanted to learn to play the guitar too. Said he wanted to "surprise" his daughter and wife when he got back. He had big fingers though and I (the antithesis) have girly fingers, so I can see how maybe having big thick fingers might be a problem. So we spent time in my hooch, strumming endlessly the basic chords wanna be guitarist often do...D, A, D, A, like a baby learning to speak. It sounded good but he gave up altogether. He decided he wanted to bring his guitar back with him but I knew better. Unless you packaged it real good and got it to the IZ and then you mailed it from there, it wouldn't make it; it took some serious planning for those of us that had to take several choppers from Iraqi bases back to Baghdad in order to mail it back. Bringing it along with the rest of your ...

February 28

640 days ago

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Of Elections and Such (I)

640 days ago

Sometimes I wonder, what is the point? When I lived overseas it amazed me how in some countries their military personnel could not vote. This was set up deliberately in order to avoid making the military a political branch. At the time I admit it did not make sense to me at all. If the vote is personal and confidential...who would know which way you would vote anyway? But in backwards countries, where the absentia voting system isn't quite refined (as if our system was really that advanced and refined!!!), it would not be possible for soldiers to vote outside of the jurisdiction they worked and operated out of anyway, making the military vote a very strong one in those communities. Fast forward fifteen years and I find myself disheartened with the candidates, yet again this year. And what is the point? When it is all said and done I have to salute him or her (wow...) and say "Aye Aye Sir/Ma'm". Flash back to 2004, to a quaint little sleepy Iraqi town in Al Anbar. ...

Times 'a churnin!

784 days ago

Yup, made if back, in one piece from "ummm, the Iraq". Lots of good friends were made there, and at least I was able to spread peace and love to that part of the world. I am now back in Texas, trying to stuff two years of Grad school into one, as per the Navy's directives. UT and Austin sure are interesting places, we are enjoying the collegiate lifestyle, though the academia can be gruelling. Recalling nineteen years ago this weekend, Roki and I spent the night in Jail on Texas-OU weekend. We were special guests that evening at the Lew Sterrit Jail house (loose Stirup?) which, by the way, has jailed infamous people such Lee Harvey Oswald, et al. Any way, Good to be back, good to be alive these days.