Re: Re: Toughest Thing I Ever Did

Posted by Dan Kelley on February 26, 2004 at 12:46:31 from (140.32.120.18):

In Reply to: Re: Toughest Thing I Ever Did posted by Buzzman72 on February 26, 2004 at 08:41:01:

Your post brought back a ton of memories.

Dec 20, 1990, my wife boarded a C-141 bound for Saudi Arabia for the first gulf war, Desert Storm.

I remember helping the unit tear down the Christmas tree, and take down the lights.

I remember the long drive back home from Fort Hood, Texas, with her car on a trailer behind my truck. It was a very quiet trip.

We don't have kids, so the next couple of months were way too quiet. I remember getting home from work every evening, having a can of chili or beef stew, and watching the evening news. Sometimes, I even took the trouble to warm up the stew.

I remember Peter Jennings, one evening, saying, "We're going to dump out of that story, and switch you live to Bagdad!" The next images were of the opening bombs in the air war.

I remember getting a couple telephone call at 2am, with the operator saying, "Collect call from Saudi Arabia. Will you accept the charges?" There was no e-mail connection to the troops back then, and she had to wait in a long line for 5 minutes at the phone bank, whenever she had the chance to get to town.

I remember a telephone call at my desk at work, one wonderful day in May. "Collect call from Saudi Arabia. Will you accept the charges?" That was followed by "I'm coming home tomorrow!"

I thank God she came back to me in one piece.

The base photographer took a picture of Jodie and me, the day she got home. We were sitting on the side of the flatbed trailer, with her car chained behind us. I was in civilian clothes; she was in her DCUs, complete with helmet and M16. We were just enjoying each other's company again.

May God bless you, your family and your son.

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