Better Now

An LDS meeting in Fallujah Nov. 12, 2006 at the "Chaplain's Oasis"

I was just talking to Mormon Medic Marine (Captain?) May about casualites this week--it appears they are way down since Saddam swung. The media is wrong again--surprise surprise. We did have one bad day this week but deaths were way down and the medic said he had several unusually slow days. I'm glad to hear when work is slow for him.

We also talked about the wounded Iraqis we treat here and the wounded Marines. The Iraqis, it seems, whine and don't want to move for days because it hurts. The Marines want to be patched up and get right back to work, "I can still shoot with my 4th finger" he heard one wounded Marine say, hoping to go back to do his job.

We are going to do a group Fast for both soldiers and Iraqis this month, a spiritual focus on behalf of freedom this month. Seems that with just a little more the tide can turn even better.

As for me, big changes are afoot. More later...