Doug, I feel your pain and expect the same thing to happen at any minute. My
son-in-law is in Baghdad. He's an MP and has had a number of close calls. His
sargeant was killed while they were standing side-by-side giving toys to kids
during the holidays. Tom has aged 20 years in the year he has been there. He,
like every other soldier there, says this isn't our war. This is their civil
war. The sooner we get the hell out of there the better. Nobody is saying
surrender. Just walk away. It ain't ours to do.
Bob Denton
-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>
>Sent: Feb 15, 2007 1:37 PM
>To: land Speed List <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Real Life - Non LSR
>
>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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