My brother's life in Afghanistan

[fireguzzi]

loonette....bravo.

Never fails. On 'The Farm', some animals are always more equal than others.

Maybe you should learn that, no matter how good or bad of a point you want to make no one will listen to it when you are disrespectful or inconsiderate.

You make a lot of serious comments that I am sure you hold dear, but no one will take your opinions to heart or even listen to them if you come across as a complete "O Ring" hole.

[Sev]

In any event.

Thank you Loonette for sharing some actual non-sensationalized, non-media-biased opinions and stories about what's going on over there. While I believe that everyone needs to run news about Iraq through their own personal "Can I believe this" detector, I think that what was said here by far and away more honest (is that the word I'm looking for?) then anything else we would see in the media.

Again I appreciate this new perspective.

[scan]

I have unlocked this thread, upon Loonette's suggestion. The main thing that ruined this thread was one user who is no longer on the board, therefore is not going to keep creating a fight in an inappropriate thread. I also removed the fight from within the thread. This thread was created to share the unique perspective many of us will never have, and also from a place many of will never be. I hope it is still appreciated in the spirit it was originally presented.

[badinfluence63]

scan,

Excellent! Well done. Here here!

[Seetrout]

Very insightful.

[blues2cruise]

Heard anything lately?

[Loonette]

Heard anything lately?

Actually, no. The last time we heard from him was right around the holidays. His group was getting ready to relocate to a much more remote part of Afghanistan. Not sure exactly where, as he was not able to tell us. We knew we wouldn't hear from him for quite some time, but this is crazy! I know that "no news is good news" would hold true in this case. I think I'll contact his wife within the next few days to see if she's heard from him.

Thanks for asking!

Cheers,
Loonette

[galord]

Your brother is a very good man. I hope he will be back to the U.S in the future.

[Patrick]

I have unlocked this thread, upon Loonette's suggestion. The main thing that ruined this thread was one user who is no longer on the board, therefore is not going to keep creating a fight in an inappropriate thread. I also removed the fight from within the thread. This thread was created to share the unique perspective many of us will never have, and also from a place many of will never be. I hope it is still appreciated in the spirit it was originally presented.

Thanks for re-opening this thread as this is the first time I have read the letter and I have tears in my eyes. Thanks for sharing it!!

Patrick

[MonkeyShines]

Thank you for sharing. Best thing I've read in ages.

I agree. The news does suck. Repetative and filtered out that we don't get a clear sense of what is going on, and the people involved.