More missed special events

When the Air Force said "You'll miss a birthday or a Christmas", I didn't realize I would miss all of them at once.  I have missed every event from Christmas to Mother's day and all the birthdays and anniversary's in between.  Today is Easter Sunday and I am here in Afghanistan wishing I had been home dying eggs.  Fortunately I did get to spend the day with a few kids.  These are Army kids and while they were here exercising their right to defend their belief, they were shot (at least these fellas have their limbs, they're just broken and bruised right now). 

First I'll talk about Scott.  He was shot in the arm, I think it's becasue he was waving at the Taliban and trying to be friends.  Okay, not really but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.  This kid is 22 and has a three year old.  Everytime I changed his bandages he kept saying "Ow!"  I had to put it in perspective for him, which was worse, pulling the hairs with the tape or getting shot in the arm.   Getting shot always won, imagine that!  He was pretty great.  We chatted for a while and told some stories and then the CCATT team came and whisked him away to Germany.  Bye Scott, it was great knowing you.

My other kid is Zach.  Zach was playing Army out in the desert when a helicopter went down and his platoon was sent in to save the pilot!  Pretty incredible, like BlackHawk Down!  Anyway, Zack puffed his chest out to the bad guys and practically dared them to shoot him...so they did.  He's ok, very minor damage and he'll need a little rehab but he's going to be ok.  I asked him to not tell me what really happened because I didn't want to have to be debriefed (and I don't mean in the good way).   Zach had a lot of visitors, especially his two buddies, Cody and Taylor.  I'll post their pics a little later, because as we all know, posting pics on this service takes too long.

I can't wait to get home and make up for all the holidays that I've missed and be able to tell some cool stories while I'm at it.  I agree six months is much too long for being away from your familly,