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Posted on 08/08/2003 2:37:41 AM PDT by tomkow6
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Too funny, too funny! Off to email.
LOL!
In a few days, I will hop in La Contessa, kiss Mrs.Cut and Mini Cut goodbye, and , tears straming, point her nose north. I'll drive to Maine, where, after checking aboard VP-10, I'll be sent...Well, I still don't know where. I just know I've been told to pack for warm weather.
Sailors, for countless years have done the same thing. I shouldn't be worried or sad, but how can one not be, with a month-old son who is just starting to...LOOK at you? Well, can't think about it...I just have to DO it, just as I've done my duty now for ten years. This is the first time I'll leave a family behind, though.
(ahem) Back in 2001, the day after Black Tuesday, I logged on to FR and, for the first time since discovering it, registered. i quickly found the Canteen thread, which became a place I loved to go in cyberspace.
You ALL were there, day after day, like FRiends at a favorite pub at the end of the day, with a warm fire and a cold beer, and with Old Glory, ever flying. I immediately felt at home, and i took great pleasure in sharing my job and life with you all. I told you of my students, the Lads, whom I trained with all the skill and leadership I knew, and then learned more. You were there on the dark, dark day when Mrs. Cut lost our first baby, to offfer comfort and prayers, all of which warmed our cold souls that day.
you were also there to share in our joy as Mini Cut entered our lives (he's doing fine, by the way! he's gained ten ounces since he was born a month ago).
All through it, you ALWAYS placed first and foremost, those Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, and Airmen who have served, and continue to serve, our country in these dark days of war. in the face of those traitors (and that is the only word that fits) who slander and smear us, you stood the ground, and held the hill, for us back home. I...WE all thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.
(cough) I'll be leaving now, to join those already overseas, to, FINALLY, do my part in full. To do what I was trained for, and to do it to the best of my abilities, as those who came before me did. However, this is not an opus.
I WILL be gone from fr for a while...six months, at least. I do not know how the 'net service will be wherever I wind up, so this will be more of a "thank you" than a goodbye.
Know, my FRiends, that I will think of you, during the long, lonely, and dangerous times ahead. I KNOW that you will think of me, Mrs. Cut, and all those in our predicament, and that you will offer prayers and support, as much as you can. Know ye, it will be appreciated.
Not much else to say, I guess, or I may just break down. So, let me put on my peacoat, sling my seabag over a shoulder, straighten my dixie cup, and depart.
I'll see you all in six. Stay safe, stay alert, and keep the home fires burnin!
P.S.-If I missed anyone in this ping list, it wasn't intentional. i tried to ping everyone I knew to it.
{{{HUGS}}} .. Stay safe Long Cut and God Bless you and your lovely family. Thank you for all you wonderful thoughtfull posts and must of all Thank You for your service to our country.
I look forward to hearing from you soon from where ever you are being sent and if not then, when you come back home.
I know you will go where your orders tell you, that's the kind of guy you are. Like thousands of others. You will do your duty and for that Long Cut, I Thank You.
God be with you.
bentfeather
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