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Archive for May, 2008

more news from my replacement

May 16, 2008

Sometimes, LTC Sanders will CC me on emails or write me directly to let me know how things are going in Balad with my old flight.  Since AEF 1/2 is about to end, the guys who replaced my group will be leaving shortly, so I’m very much looking forward to hearing about their deployment, and [...]

back at work – 3/12/08

May 13, 2008

Here I am in front of my decorated office.  I had an impromptu press conference for the first couple hours I was back.  time to return to being an atlanta workers’ comp attorney.

divorce

May 12, 2008

just learned that some members of my flight are getting divorced now.  i wonder how common this is? 
on my last deployment to iraq, i saw several friends get the middle finger from spouses or girlfriends while stuck in the sand.  i even counseled a few of them (as well as a law student could).  one [...]

3 months

May 6, 2008

i’ve been back for just over three months now.  this is the point at which, according to the armed forces network’s public service announcements, i am supposed to feel “like nothing is the same” or withdrawn.  for me, that is not the case.  not this time or at this point, at least.  maybe when i [...]