Back in January of this year, just a week after our son, Noah, deployed to Iraq , I wrote Every Parent’s Nightmare in which I said:

I believe that it is every parent's nightmare that something will happen to their child and that they can't get there. My sleeping and waking nightmare is hearing any of my children crying out for me and I'm not able to get to them… I could not bear the thought that there might be an emergency and I would not be there when my child needed me.

And, of course, that call on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 confirmed that nightmare tenfold!! This has been a truly overwhelming experience – and we’re just 4 days into the journey!

We have been blessed that Noah’s injuries were far less drastic than originally thought, and his Command called to tell us that Noah may be shipped back to the U.S. next week to an Army medical facility to continue treatment and rehabilitation!! (We know he won’t be especially happy with returning stateside – principally because we know he is adamant that he get back with his unit and he shared the other day that he believes that there is a better chance of that happening if he rehabs in Germany … Be that as it may…)

We have been told that he probably will not be sent to Walter Reed (so we are assuming that is more good news!) In fact, they tell us that they could even decide to send him to the hospital at his Division’s stateside base! We have not yet heard from Noah so do not yet know foremost, how he’s feeling, but also importantly, what the tests revealed and what diagnosis has been made, what the prognosis is, what the treatment may be and how long his expected recovery might be. Whatever the details of the “plan,” I will travel from our home to wherever Noah’s final destination is and stay as long as I can be useful to him.

Since the military only covers travel expense for immediate family of "seriously injured soldiers" and as Noah is no longer considered seriously, neither the costs of travel nor living expenses of his family to be with our soldier are covered or reimbursable. . We have had many inquiries of how people wishing to help Noah and our family, so an account has been set up to help defray the costs of Noah’s continuing care… If you would like to contribute, PayPal donations may be NoahPWounded@cableone.net.

Funds not used for Noah will be donated to Soldiers Angels and/or the Wounded Warrior Project.
We thank all again from the bottom of our hearts for your prayers and compassion and affection.

Carla
Some Soldier’s Mom


For checks or money orders:
Noah P. Wounded Warrior Fund
Wells Fargo Bank
825 Miller Valley Road
Prescott, AZ 86301


Cards and letters may be send to:
Noah P. Wounded Warrior
1042 Willow Creek #101
PMB 279
Prescott, AZ 86301

Quote of the Day
"I admire men of character, and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates, and that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is."
-- General H. Norman Schwartzkopf

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Today in History
1708 - Haverhill, MA, is destroyed by the French and Indians.
1758 - The first American Indian reservation is established.
1776 - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester, NY.
1786 - Shay's Rebellion occurs in Springfield, MA.
1854 - Daniel Halladay receives a patent for the self-governing windmill.
1862 - The Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins; the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins operations.
1883 - Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hours later.
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler receives a German patent for a motorcycle.
1896 - Chop suey is invented in NYC by the visiting Chinese Ambassador's chef.
1909 - A.H. Latham of France sets a world airplane altitude record of 155 m; American Glenn Curtis wins the world's first air race (Rheims, France)
1914 - The Arizonan is the first vessel to arrive in San Francisco via the Panama Canal.
1916 - The steamer Hsin Iu sinks off China coast; 1,000 drown.
1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin ends its round-the-world flight.
1939 - Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II.
1944 - 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down the Champs-Elysees.
1949 - The U.S.S.R. detonates its first atomic bomb.
1953 - The U.S.S.R. detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
1957 - The U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
1958 - The Air Force Academy opens.
1965 - Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1975 - Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1988 - USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 - A C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13; Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.

Birthdays
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician / author (Old Ironsides)
1899 - Lyman L. Lemnitzer, US Army General (WW II), US Army Chief of Staff, NATO Commander
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, actress
1920 - Charlie "Bird" Parker famous African-American jazzman
1925 - Donald O'Connor, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
1934 - David Pryor (Sen-AR)
1938 - Elliott Gould, actor (M*A*S*H); Peter Jennings, news anchor (ABC TV)
1941 - Robin Leach, TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
1948 - Charles D. Walker, astronaut (STS 41D, STS 51D, STS 61B)

Passings
29 - John the Baptist, beheaded (date is questionable )
1533 - Atahualpa, last Incan King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
1769 - Edmond Hoyle, games expert
1877 - Brigham Young, second president of Mormon Church
1960 - Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan, assassinated
1967 - George Rockwell, American Nazi party leader, murdered
1982 - Ingrid Bergman, actress, on her 67th birthday
1987 - Lee Marvin, actor

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Byrne, Ronald E., Jr., USAF (NY); F105 shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive as of 1998

McWhorter, Henry S., USN (GA); RF8A shot down, KIA, remains returned February, 1987

Taylor, Edd David, USN (AR); A1H shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1966
Wells, Norman L., USAF (VA); F105D shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive as of 1998

1967
Newburn, Larry S., US Army (IN); raft tipped over while crossing stream, Killed, body not recovered

1968
Ashall, Alan F., USNR (MT); A6B shot down (B/N, w/Duncan), survival unlikely

Duncan, Robert R., USN (FL); A6B shot down (pilot, w/Ashall), survival unlikely

1969
Graf, Albert Stephen, USMC (NJ); F4B shot down (aircrew)

Zimmer, Jerry Allen, USMC (NY); F4B shot down (pilot)