journaling: enabled

I find it interesting how reading statements relating to national pride sometimes give me goosebumps. I just browsed over a news article relating to the deployment of the 4th Infantry Division … aka Task Force Ironhorse. I read it because liz4jc4ever‘s brother is part of that division, though his trip over was delayed to make room for some MPs on the plane. It sucks because Liz got word Thursday that he was leaving, and now he’s not gone, and she’ll probably get word again soon that he really is leaving and have to again go through the thoughts that enter one’s head when you ponder a loved one departing for military combat.
Anyway. I was reading that article and some of the statements inspire a degree of national pride and sense of history that few other things do.