Your brother has been added to the family prayer list. Also, and I hope it is ok, I forwarded the request to my in-laws. You see my bride (an American born in Wisconsin) grew up in Africa...her parents dedicated their lives to ministry work in the country. As such, I'm confident they have a rust free line to the man upstairs.

Ditto on the prayers. My son did six months in Iraq last year. My butt was clenched for every day of it.

God's speed to your brother's tour and to the prayers liftedfor him and all the brave americans who are giving of themselves for the rest of us. May they all fulfill the job they are doing in a swift and safe way and return to us whole as the hero's they are. Please thank your brother for his service to all of us. He is in our prayers.

thanks guys.

Corey, My Grandson is in the Marines and is also going to Iraq this month, We will pray to God that he will keep them all safe, but at the same time we can be proud of them, for if it wasn't for them, the bad guy's would undoubtable get us for sure they want to kill us and our guy's over there know it, that is why a large precentage of them keep going back.I received a E-Mail yesterdayof a poem a marine wrote,that would make you proud and cry at the same time. He sent this poem to his dad and told him to pass it on to everyone, If I knew how, I would send it to all the folks on this forum.Their is also pictures.Maybe you can teach an old man new tricks. Duck Creek Hunter.

Best wishes for a safe return to your brother from a retired soldier.

God Bless

In our thoughts and prayers also!! My oldest daughter's boyfriend is headed there also, some kind of river assault group. Best of luck to them all!!

We will keep him in our prayers. I've served the Navy for 22 years now (still going) and have been deployed to the Gulf 4 times and each were 6 months so i know how rough it can be on family members. The benefit me my deployments were that I was on a Aircraft Carrier and not on the beach where the threat is much greater. My greatest threats were aircraft landing on the flight deck.

he did 2 or 3 tours in the gulf when was full time. carrier as well (carl vensent) if I spelled it right. this is first deployment since. about 11years