Kevin, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog today. I was referred to your site by a parent contributing to Bob Babcock's "4th ID Update From Iraq" newsletter. My son (1-9 CAV/TF 1-34 AR) is somewhere in the Suni Triangle and I get a short letter from him about once every two weeks. Yesterday he informed me that the mail truck had been blown up and the driver killed...so, I'll just pack more boxes. They don't have the luxury of electricity, water (they ration theirs to 1 bottle a day), A/C, internet or telephones. He and the little group from Ft. Hood have only been there a month and already it seems like an eternity. I believe people get more information if they are the spouses of the serviceman...us mothers just have to keep digging for sites to keep us informed. My husband died of brain cancer 2 years ago, so it's just me and the two boys (the other in the Navy--tucked safely in Pensacola).