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Okay .

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Okay . Larry Van Hook , last name . V A

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N H . O . Okay . Uh ,

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when I do it anything on the computer ,

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I don't put a space that confuses them .

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Larry L . A . R Y .

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Uh , well it's temple texas

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right now . Well the Abilene is

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where we lived for 20 years and I used

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to pass the church there clashed the

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administer there , but we also also

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pastor outside outside of the

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way

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the house got started in june we go out

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here at the end of september , I

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started chapter more of the full set of

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BsB 82nd Airborne and chaplain morgan

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who was the O . I . C . At the chapel

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across the street over here in the 15th ,

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september beginning I was their

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brainchild put together . Uh , they got

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the building when it was just an empty

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empty shell . Uh , and what you see

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today is for the most part what they're ,

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what they accomplished when we took it

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over in february .

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Well ,

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yes , we took the baton from them .

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Made a few improvements like adding

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affordable water , increasing the deck

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space . Uh , something like that . And

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we're hoping that each unit that comes

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and takes ownership of the mud house

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will continue to improve their

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facilities for soldiers .

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Well ,

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the house is a great

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deal helping around had soldiers tell

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me that uh , if it hadn't been for the

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mud house that they don't think they

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would have made it through the

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deployment because of certain stress

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and all that was going on their life .

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There's a place to decompress . Uh , it

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was also a place that they chaplains

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can be visible to them and be

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accessible to them as well . So there

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were times that people that normally

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wouldn't talk to us , talk to us out

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here in this uh in this setting . So it

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was a good thing for both of us . Uh

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well

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uh the logo was

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also the idea of a chaplain morgan and

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chapel more . Uh the idea that were

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made of dirt uh and then there's so

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much mud around this place . Uh it just

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seemed good sitting that uh we as human

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beings made from the ground uh would

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come and needed a place called the mud

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house , which is also by the way , term

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for coffee and they have some mud . Uh

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so uh , so it it was just , it seemed

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very fitting . Thanks every

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with

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well

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uh chaplain a lot of times people ask

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me what can we do . Uh and I told him ,

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I said , well one of the things we need

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is a chocolate for during the summer ,

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so they're going to send a bunch of

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chocolate over . But something else

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they want to do is give us t shirts for

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the mud house that has the logo on it .

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Uh we have a logo that has been hand

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print but has a circle around it and

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says Project Iraq . Uh so it's a good

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way to promote this place among

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soldiers that leave from here . Kind of

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leave them with something that is a

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remembrance of their experience , Uh

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very good morale boost or something ,

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they can take back home with them and

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remind them of the good , something

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good that they experienced when they

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were here serving in Iraq . Uh

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Well

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Abilene is like that is , it's about

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120,000 people . That is like a small

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town uh and they're very supportive the

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military , There's a military base

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there in Abilene , so I'm not surprised

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that people will band together to

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support the troops like they are . I

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was probably lived there for 20 years .

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It's a great city .

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Well

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this is also a chaplain sponsored

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ministry which allows chaplains uh like

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I said before , to have a place of

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visibility . It's not it's not just a

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nwr it is , it's more than that . It's

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also a place uh where chaplains can

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have an influence , We hope that we'll

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have a good influence on . Uh there's a

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lot of people here that would come here

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that wouldn't have come to our chapel

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and it gives us a chance to have access

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to them and to encourage them to

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motivate them and increase overall

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spiritual things as well as uh

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emotional and social and physical

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things