I am very honored to have found this thread! All of you in this community are the best [censored] people!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have not only enjoyed talking to all of you but have found it very therapeutic to the stress or work and life in general! Also, you fill a void that I to have. I have never been to war but have seen other horrors that are in the world such as the African countries that I have visited both with poverty, disease and death. When I was isolated for months I too grew a close brotherhood with my fellow expedition members which I miss very much. All of the mis-adventures we had been through, the malaria that we all had and even one of us with typhoid. We traveled through bandit ridden territory as well as poachers who would shoot us on sight. No one who never went through a life and death situation understands the depression that follows something like that when you have to come back to normal life.

I know this is nothing compared to what you have all faced in war but I understand that a connection has been made to those people!

You Gentlemen have found a great way to honor a warrior who served his country admirably and with something that will be treasured for the rest of his life!

YOU ALL deserve a round of applause!!!! THE DOGS RULE!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" />