As we continue to await our orders releasing from this deployment we talk to each other about what exactly happened in Iraq over this past year and wonder if it will all be woth it in the end, it's some very intresting conversation and I will share much of it in upcoming blogs. Many of my fellow soldiers have asked me to continue the blog and mention our conversations, I will do this because "they" want me to. I will have to wait until I get home because things here are still confused and I want to carefully make my entries.

When we first arrived here in Hawaii we heard alot of "Welcome Home" but have been here for over two weeks and have yet to be told when we really are going home. The people of Hawaii have been fantastic and sincere and it helps, but we really want to go home. One concern for all of us is the amount of money we are spending each day. It is difficult to resist being in Hawaii and not doing the tourist thing, which costs us money. Hawaii is very nice but it's not home.

That's all for now I will have much more to say when I finally get home.