Friends in Iraq

I talked to one of my friends over the weekend who is leaving for Iraq. First he is going to Mississippi for training and then he will be going to Iraq for over a year. At first he was all ready to go and fired up about it. Now he has heard stories from another friend who has been there and he is thinking about it differently. Kevin is a friend who was already in Iraq and has to go back soon. He was a military police officer and he said there were children who would walk up to the soldiers and would try to sell them something or they would also try to kill them by pulling out a gun. It sounded horrible and Kevin could hardly talk about it. Now another friend has to go. -It changes them forever.

Adam and I were driving thru Minneapolis last weekend in a really poor neighborhood. I noticed an Army recruiting station right in the middle of everything. I found it interesting that the recruiting station was in the middle of a really poor neighborhood...