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Good morning , this is Lieutenant

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Colonel Shell . Come to you live from

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Karbala Iraq or what the bible refers

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to the land of Earth now Pastor Doug

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and I have been talking about the land

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of her . And I told him I could

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understand why . The Lord told Abraham

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to leave this place . It's hot .

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Today's temperature 118 Last week it

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was 124 . It's hot . It's dusty ,

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sandy Wendy . And it's hot . It's so

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hot . Even our swimming pool dried up .

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But I wanted to take this time to thank

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you all . Thank you all for keeping us

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in your thoughts and prayers . They do

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work . The last time I was here I

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stationed in East Baghdad nasty place .

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We ended up getting shelled , rocketed

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459 times . It's one particular sunday

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night . It was movie night at the

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chapel and the sound and the projector

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and going out . Signal officer stepped

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up to fix it and I stepped outside to

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call home . Well I was on the phone

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with my wife Stephanie . We started

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taking in company . I told her I had to

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go hung up the phone and ran to the

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nearest bunker . Now nobody got hurt

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that night . But a rocket did land next

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to our latrine facility . It had failed

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to explode if it had , it surely would

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have destroyed the facility and those

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inside of it . Now I

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can't explain why it didn't explode .

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But I can tell you my wife and kids who

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were on their way to Holy cross that

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morning . Hold over the side of the

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road and prayed for us . So please keep

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us in your thoughts and prayers . Keep

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them coming . They work . I hope you

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all have a great 4th of July shoot some

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fireworks off for me and I'll see you

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all in august when I come home for some

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R and R by .