I haven't posted in a while, but today was Alek's last day in third grade...he brought home a poster he'd made in class complete with a picture of himself and Brian and I...I thought it would be fun to reproduce here, complete with his unique spelling....as an aside, his cursive handwriting looks much better than mine ( Read more... )

Today I celebrate 12 years with Brian!!!!!! I am a very lucky guy.....

A follow up story to the one about Cpl Smith and HM3 Kirby....also turns out Kirby's cousin is Joe Worley, a corpsman I knew from my last deployment in Iraq who lost his leg in Fallujah...anyway, here's the story ( Read more... )

No doubt that corpsmen serving with the Marines are some of the greatest people on this earth....when I was in Fallujah, we used to call Karma "Bad Karma" as it was a particularly inhospitable place...I see that it still is ( Read more... )

Alek and Brian are back from their trip to Nebraska...I am on my four ER shift in as many days, but I did get to spend the afternoon with Alek...had a great time in Old Town withhim, and went to Borders and picked up the new Emmilou Harris/Mark Knoeffler CD and a new one by Cesario Evora...read a friends LJ today...thought of this song, one of my ( Read more... )

Now why did I find this story so amusing ( Read more... )

Cowboymarine put up a picture of another Marine today on his site...Cpl Jason Dunham...some of my friends (Dr. Hessel, LT Hering) cared for him after he was initially wounded...here's his story if you don't know it...thank you Jason....and thank you to Jason's family...and thank you to ALL Marines past and present who protect our freedom ( Read more... )

After a weekend during which we lost another 4 Marines in Iraq, I went back to this poem dedicated to the Memory of Cpl James Lee Moore, USMC 02/03/80 - 01/26/05 ( Read more... )

I got back from DC late last night, and Brian and Alek picked my up at the airport...Alek was thrilled with the little robot I got him from the Smithonian Museum Store...I wondered whether they might have forgotten that it was my birthday...but of course, they had a surpirse waiting at home...Alek almost couldn't contain himself he was so excited ( Read more... )

After a four hour nap, I'm back...Brian's working, and Kevin and Don stopped by with the dogs to play with Alek...I know I'll get some pressure to get a dog from Alek later today...he really has a blast with them. I have to get quickly back to a day schedule as I fly out to DC tomorrow AM....I think we'll do a family night out tonight and take ( Read more... )