We received an email last night from our friend Sgt. Redding that we told you about earlier in the year. He's been deployed in Iraq. He was scheduled to be shipped home the first week of May but his company needed a few to stay till the end of May or early June so he volunteered so no one else would have to stay.
Thought we'd share it with all of you:
Well as I lay here in this cot in a GP medium tent at 1:41 in the am reading my daily dose of Wired2Fish, I think back on the events of this past year. The friends I have made but never met. The time away from my family the how hot is it over there question that I had to answer for ever person in my family by saying take a long extension cord go outside in the month of July and plug your hair dryer in it and point it directly at your face and turn it on. All the fish I have missed and how lucky them toads are that I am stuck in this desert and not chasing them on my favorite body of water. All this is coming to and end and I would like to say thank you to the whole gang at Wired2fish. I don't know if I ever will be able to repay you for the kindness that you and your readers have blessed me with. Deployments are hard on a soldier but that is the price we pay for freedom and most of the time we will do it with a smile. For those times when a smile is not so easy we have outlet that we go to that gets us through. A little piece of home and a place in our minds. Mine is fishing and everything about it. Wired2fish has provided this for me and at times via email when I just wanted to talk about fishing. I would like to tell you this is true troop support and I have said this before but it is worth saying again you and your readers are true Patriots in my book. Thank you for your kindness and prayers will see ya on the Water in June.
