Your writings express the emotions of the situation that you are subjected to in a way that makes me "relax" about my 21 year son (baby of the family) who is a Sgt. with the 1st MarDivMD in Headquarters and Supply at Camp Blue Diamond in Ramadi Iraq. I wish that I could be a fly on the wall and know more about the situation in his camp. He seems perfectly at home for that is a Marine who has been stationed in Okinawa for two years and who has only been in Iraq since the first of September. I laughed at his response when I sent him your view on the boys at the swimming pool. He said that "the pool was not at the camp that he was in." Of course, I would like to hear more on Camp Blue Diamond, but you have a lot of territory to explore.