we just heard from our nephew with the Marines ...

[NVMojo]

he was headed to Iraq a couple of weeks ago but their ship was redirected in the past few days to aid with the tsunami relief effort ...

[havocmom]

1. Cool, he can work up some GOOD karma

Am keeping him in my prayers for you NVMojo. Glad to hear from you about him. Knew he was heading out from your other posts.

[NVMojo]

4. thanks, he got lucky the first time he went to "Iraq", they hardly left

their ship ....

He had called us up and told my spouse that he had a really bad feeling about this tour to Iraq because of some things that had happened prior to deporting. The Marines held them at a secure undisclosed area with no contact for almost two months in southern California ...it was eerie ...

this is a kid who was mad at his parents and enlisted a few years ago after high school grad in June and then we invaded Iraq the following spring ....probably happened to alot of kids ...

[Lil]

2. Yay!!! Great news, NVMojo! Huge relief for your family! :-)

Thanks for telling us.

[molly]

3. Great news!

[Quakerfriend]

5. Will keep him in my prayers, MV.

;-)

[stanwyck]

6. Keep us informed

on how he's doing.
My son, also a Marine, left today for his base. He's supposed to leave for Iraq sometime within the next two weeks. He was there for 5 months this past year. We feel very lucky to have had him home for two weeks during the holidays.

[NVMojo]

7. thank you to all, and I will be praying for your son, stanwyck....

[ailsagirl]

8. I'm happy for you, NV...that's great news