Real American Hero
What follows is another letter from Steve from awhile back i thought you might enjoy....
hey Nicole- well i've tried to respond to this email 2 times already and the computer keeps on geting messed up so here i got for the 3rd time. the first two responsis were very profound but i'll see what i can do this time.
don't missunderstand... there is plenty of bitching up here... but i guess there is bitching everywhere. i always tell my guys that they are real american heros and that they will be bigtime war vets when they get home.. that cheers them up. ha!
it does suck over here but let's see if i can explain it... hummm well when we got here we didn't really have time to realize the "suck" of it all and now it is just somthing that i guess we are used to. we still know it sucks but it is what we have known for 10 months so it isn't that bad.
it is great to hear that people apreciate what we do but it is just that... what we do. it just so happens that our job is on the ground. it's weird how things work out and the choices that we make and how it all develops. i think that it is how you chose to live with your choices and is the difference between happiness or not. i think that you can relate... due to your stories. somedays i hate the army and then i try to look at all the things that it has given me and all that. i wonder... would i be who i am if this whole thing didn't suck and it wasn't a major segnificant event in my life... maybe not. i remember back in july when i was in falujah and i said to my buddy... i'm glad i came and all but i'm good now. ha! i think that the army has professionally developed me quite enuf over here.
it's weird though.. all my guys chose field artillery but all of us officers just get what branch we get. i put FA as my first choice but that is not always the case for alot ofthe guys. it isn't garison artillery it is "field artillery" after all. i think that is kinda funny. some people chose to serve in the air force and navy and i think that is great... everyone makes sacrafices.... they are just different.. what would be hell for one person may be a good time for another... ya know.
i'm glad that you like my stories and stuff... i wish i could write them better than i can. i am much better at telling stories in person. there are so many and lately ... what with the redeployment we have all been looking back. the really good ones i can't really send over e mail... you know how it is.... but let me think.
this one time we were doing a TCP.. you know stoping and searching cars in the middle of the night on the highway with howitzers of all things and i was almost run over by a m. benz. all you could hear was all my guys click their wepons from safe to semi and the screeching of the tires. i stood my ground and the car stoped like 6 inches from my legs. after about 2 seconds of... "thank god" my guys proceded to search "very well". they were like..."you almost killed the LT!"
like they would know what that means. it's awsome to know that you have 40 dudes looking out for ya. or this one time when we were looking at a map on my humvee and a mortar hit like 20 meters from us and we hardly jumped... everyone just kept on doing what they were doing. it didn't seem that close but when we rolled out and looked left there were all these people puting fires and stuff out. ooops. i guess that will happen. ha!
i feel like i'm telling.... "this one time at band camp stories"but hopefully with a little imagination you can see how they could be funny. i really enjoy reading about all your stuff and the pictures are awsome. you look totally ninja in that nicaragua photo. my guys and i call anything hard core or tuff..."NINJA" kinda stupid but what ever. you know... that was totally "ninja" was the one picture of you taken back in millwakee... i don't know of any places to stay over here that look like that. those are some pritty bitchin' christmas lights you had going on too. we hung lights up too if you can belive that. we even put lights on a little tree we had sent from home. okay well i hope this goes thru and if not... hummm.... what ever... if you somehow got the last two email that resemble this one just know that i wasn't sure if they sent. steve. (my email skills are improving.... to much to ask my spelling will improve though... it isn't my fault... i was hooked on fonics.)
hey Nicole- well i've tried to respond to this email 2 times already and the computer keeps on geting messed up so here i got for the 3rd time. the first two responsis were very profound but i'll see what i can do this time.
don't missunderstand... there is plenty of bitching up here... but i guess there is bitching everywhere. i always tell my guys that they are real american heros and that they will be bigtime war vets when they get home.. that cheers them up. ha!
it does suck over here but let's see if i can explain it... hummm well when we got here we didn't really have time to realize the "suck" of it all and now it is just somthing that i guess we are used to. we still know it sucks but it is what we have known for 10 months so it isn't that bad.
it is great to hear that people apreciate what we do but it is just that... what we do. it just so happens that our job is on the ground. it's weird how things work out and the choices that we make and how it all develops. i think that it is how you chose to live with your choices and is the difference between happiness or not. i think that you can relate... due to your stories. somedays i hate the army and then i try to look at all the things that it has given me and all that. i wonder... would i be who i am if this whole thing didn't suck and it wasn't a major segnificant event in my life... maybe not. i remember back in july when i was in falujah and i said to my buddy... i'm glad i came and all but i'm good now. ha! i think that the army has professionally developed me quite enuf over here.
it's weird though.. all my guys chose field artillery but all of us officers just get what branch we get. i put FA as my first choice but that is not always the case for alot ofthe guys. it isn't garison artillery it is "field artillery" after all. i think that is kinda funny. some people chose to serve in the air force and navy and i think that is great... everyone makes sacrafices.... they are just different.. what would be hell for one person may be a good time for another... ya know.
i'm glad that you like my stories and stuff... i wish i could write them better than i can. i am much better at telling stories in person. there are so many and lately ... what with the redeployment we have all been looking back. the really good ones i can't really send over e mail... you know how it is.... but let me think.
this one time we were doing a TCP.. you know stoping and searching cars in the middle of the night on the highway with howitzers of all things and i was almost run over by a m. benz. all you could hear was all my guys click their wepons from safe to semi and the screeching of the tires. i stood my ground and the car stoped like 6 inches from my legs. after about 2 seconds of... "thank god" my guys proceded to search "very well". they were like..."you almost killed the LT!"
like they would know what that means. it's awsome to know that you have 40 dudes looking out for ya. or this one time when we were looking at a map on my humvee and a mortar hit like 20 meters from us and we hardly jumped... everyone just kept on doing what they were doing. it didn't seem that close but when we rolled out and looked left there were all these people puting fires and stuff out. ooops. i guess that will happen. ha!
i feel like i'm telling.... "this one time at band camp stories"but hopefully with a little imagination you can see how they could be funny. i really enjoy reading about all your stuff and the pictures are awsome. you look totally ninja in that nicaragua photo. my guys and i call anything hard core or tuff..."NINJA" kinda stupid but what ever. you know... that was totally "ninja" was the one picture of you taken back in millwakee... i don't know of any places to stay over here that look like that. those are some pritty bitchin' christmas lights you had going on too. we hung lights up too if you can belive that. we even put lights on a little tree we had sent from home. okay well i hope this goes thru and if not... hummm.... what ever... if you somehow got the last two email that resemble this one just know that i wasn't sure if they sent. steve. (my email skills are improving.... to much to ask my spelling will improve though... it isn't my fault... i was hooked on fonics.)
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