Tammi's World

Watching From Iraq

Ok - this puts it in perspective.

I found this, again in the Orlando Sentinel. It's a story by Capt. Steven Alvarez, currently serving in Iraq. It tells of what he went through as he watched Charley as he traveled closer and closer to his wife and son, while he could do nothing but watch it on a computer screen.

There are the two final paragraphs:

But my worst memory here thus far will be the day that Charley came to Orlando and came within a mile or so of my family. From Baghdad, watching the horrific pictures of homes crushed by trees, vehicles kicked about like soda pop cans and the angry weather flattening everything in its path made me think.

I finally know what my wife endures on a daily basis. Although I am safe, what she sees isn't comforting. I experienced the uncertainty, the fear and the urgency to hear her voice. But I went through that for one day. I can't imagine living that way for one year.

This really gets to me.

Posted by Tammi at August 16, 2004 07:33 PM