Iraq Story
My Trip to Iraq
It was February 11, 2003. My family and I were trying to spend some quality time together before my deployment to Iraq. Time was flying by so fast, yet I knew once I touched ground in Iraq that would all change. Saying goodbye to my newly established family was like taking away medication that I needed on a daily basis. I did not know how I was going to make it out there without them. What made it worst was that Uncle Sam had not even given us a return date to look forward to. So we planned on being in Iraq for at least a year.
I will never look at Valentines Day the same again. February 14, 2003 was one of the most miserable days of my entire life. We arrived at Kuwait International Airport. Then we got herded of the airplane on to these buses with all the windows covered by blankets. It was the bumpiest bus ride I had ever been on. Keep in mind all 270 of us had full battle rattle on and a M16A2 assult rifle on each individual. After the 2 hour......
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