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A Letter from Afghanistan…it speaks for itself:

Hello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just
wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram
Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to ‘The War
Zone’. I wanted to share with you what happened.
He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof
vehicle , got to the area to meet with the Major General (2
Star) who is the commander here at Bagram.

As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he
blew them off and didn’t say a word as he went into the
conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the
vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top
tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out
in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures
playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk
to Soldiers to thank them for their service.

So really he was just here to make a showing for the
American’s back home that he is their candidate for
President. I think that if you are going to make an effort
to come all the way over here you would thank those that are
providing the freedom that they are providing for you.

I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball
Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheer leaders than from one of
the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United
States. I just don’t understand how anyone would want him to
be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared
to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our
great country.

If this is blunt and to the
point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of
caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is
all fake.

In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
American Soldier

…or lack thereof.  I’ve lost much of mine, and I want to know where it went.  This sums it up perfectly:

I have all of these cool things I want to do, but there is something stupid in my brain keeping me from doing them.  Part of it is its just so easy to get into the grind now, and just kind of go with the flow.  It’s not like I don’t do anything interesting or fun…I do…its just that I don’t care as much about doing it all, and I’m not passionate about any of it.  I was very passionate about a lot of things for the first year or so I was here.  Then I think I just gave too much, and it sapped it all.  So maybe now I’m just letting it all well up again so I can give another big burst.

It definitely comes in bursts for me.  There are times that I don’t get jack done for a few hours, and then I’ll have a burst for an hour and get more done in that hour than some people can do in days.  I just wish I knew how to sustain it.  Gotta figure that out.