Shaffer
04-22-03, 07:19 AM
Yellow ribbons adorned trees outside Suzanna's Camp Pendleton housing unit, where nearly a dozen wives gathered last week.
We came to plan family events and hear news passed directly from Battalion Headquarters to Cindy, our appointed Key Volunteer Coordinator. In the living room, we found spots on the couches or sat Indian-style on the carpet, while our little ones discovered bins of toys in the corner.
In Baghdad, heavy fighting had ceased, and the mission of our Marines had morphed into one of patrolling and peacekeeping. Pockets of resistance and the threat of terrorists remained, but U.S. forces controlled the city streets.
The tension in my shoulders and the knot in my stomach had dissipated, replaced by a sense of euphoria that the war might soon be over.
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=35618
We came to plan family events and hear news passed directly from Battalion Headquarters to Cindy, our appointed Key Volunteer Coordinator. In the living room, we found spots on the couches or sat Indian-style on the carpet, while our little ones discovered bins of toys in the corner.
In Baghdad, heavy fighting had ceased, and the mission of our Marines had morphed into one of patrolling and peacekeeping. Pockets of resistance and the threat of terrorists remained, but U.S. forces controlled the city streets.
The tension in my shoulders and the knot in my stomach had dissipated, replaced by a sense of euphoria that the war might soon be over.
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=35618