On the road again- at least half of us...

Russ left this morning in Bowkers' truck headed for his mother's in Houston. I will be staying here at Eglin AFB for another week with our daughter Lisa and her husband Keith and their son Aaron and 3 dogs. Keith will be leaving soon for Iraq but, unfortunately, we can't stay while he's gone. We wish we could help Lisa more, even just to keep her company. But we need to be in Utah by the end of February. It seems that even living on the road, we can't always be where we might be needed most at the right time. We're glad that the people on bases, and even some small towns, are very supportive of these lonely little families and their fathers or husbands or wives or whoever it is that has to go way over to another part of the world with the ever-present danger of not making it back home alive. I can't imagine anyone who is involved in war because they "like" it. I can't understand cultures that are bent on destruction of other cultures, religions, and even themselves. I wish the people of Iraq and Afghanistan would just work out their problems without such anger and destruction so our service men and women, along with any other country's trying to help, could just return home and get on with their lives.