A Fellow Blogger

Several months ago, when I fist found out that I was going to Iraq, I tried to find out as much as I could about my new assignment. Since the Navy wasn’t very forthcoming with information, I did what anyone else would have done—I went to Google. Sure enough, Google came through and pointed me to Dan’s blog: The Desert Periscope. I thought it was a great idea and it was the inspiration for me to start my own blog. Although tempted, I never copied his posts and claimed them as my own-although his posts are much better than mine. Dan is almost finished with his tour over here, so he is what we call a short timer. I wish his god speed, fair winds and following seas and all that other stuff…