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From: "Sharon Howell" <>
Subject: [NEWGEN] thanking our military
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:37:25 -0500


To Jerry and the List,
As a mother of a 27 year old Air Force staff sgt., Chad, I personally was grateful for the opportunity to sign.
My son enlisted 7 years ago, in peacetime, and re-enlisted 3 years ago, again in peacetime. When we started retaliatory bombing, he was headed for Pakistan. Our whole family was frightened and worried. Last year during the holidays he was deployed to the United Arab Emirates, and has been expecting deployment again at any time to several of the "stans", possibly Iraq, for 90 days at a time, for the next year. He has friends who have been denied discharge when their time came, and he's not sure the same situation won't happen to him. I personally am grateful for any and all prayers for him. We see him less than once a year. Being in the Air Force, he's in the safest military branch, but there is always danger.

Please think and pray for all our military. The holidays are here, and loved ones miss them.

Sharon Howell
Ohio

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