I can sympathize with you. My son is in Baqubah right now. His 'barracks' is across the street from the police station that got suicide-bombed the other day. Luckily, he was about two blocks away at the time (but had a piece of shrapnel sail over his head) and none of his buddies were hurt, either.

Thank God I get to see him in a couple of weeks when he's home for a 2 week leave. Unfortunately, he's got to return there until May-ish.

-Mark