Doug;
'Am so sorry to hear of your loss. My 21 yr old step-son has just transferred
from Sicily to Port Hueneme,Ventura Co,California for more Navy training. Then
its on to Kuwait in Aug. Nice ,you and the auto-shop teacher can help youth
that may need some guidance.We all feel your sadness and loss. Thanks for
sharing bud.
Tom Shannon
Magna, Utah
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>
Reply-To: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:37:49 -0800
>Sorry, but I have to express my pain. I lost a friend in Iraq this week.
>Carl was a young man that worked for me in the shop. The high school
>auto shop teacher and I are friends. When he would get a kid that just
>needed some 1 on 1 work and was a good kid he would send him to me on a
>ROP program. Carl didn't have a father and his mother is strange. He
>would hang around the shop just to be here. He loved working in the
>shop. I let him do his homework in my office because he would do it in
>his car rather than go home. He joined the army and was a mechanic in
>the motor pool. Every time he was in town on leave he would come and see
>what new race car we had in the shop and tell me about all the great
>things they were doing for the people of Iraq. He could not understand
>why the news was not showing what was really going on over there. We
>never could work it out for him to go to Bonneville because the army
>always had other plans for him at that time.
> Then I turn on the TV and see a bunch of candy ass, worthless
>politicians telling us the army can't win and we need to surrender and
>get out.
>This was much longer but I edited out most of my anger and frustrations
>with the people that want us to lose this war.
>A very sad Doug Odom in big ditch
>
>
>
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