Grasshopper Green

Thanks for this, Sue. My husband is a veteran of the war in Iraq and served nearly 5 years in the Marine Corps. My brother in law is in Iraq right now with the Air Force.

My husband was thanked in front of family at a recent family gathering; a friend of the family brought her husband with her and he is a pretty conservative guy. My family is about as liberal as you can get, and thus extremely anti-war and not terribly supportive of the military. The husband said quite loudly so everyone could hear that while he doubted many had thanked my husband, he wanted to say thank you for risking his life. I was touched, and everyone else was visibly uncomfortable, which was fine by me. I'm not a supporter of the war, but my husband did risk his life over there, and I thanked him when he got home.

In the spirit of a previous poster, hurry home Mike and Tony!

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