A soldier from Wilkes ...

... is returning to Iraq. No big deal in most ways - we have sent dozens of men and women over there from Wilkes. Up in Boone I am currently teaching several returning veterans and occasionally get in touch with one of my former students who are there or returning. Still, it helps to have it brought home in specific and personal terms, as this young woman does on gowilkes.com:

I would like to ask everyone to pray for my cousin "SPC.D[...] B[...]" he has been on an 18 day leave from Iraq and will be returning back to Iraq on Tuesday the 30th.Out of his 4yrs,he has been over in AFGANISTAN and IRAQ for about 3 and a half of those.Please remember him and all the other soldiers in your prayers and for their safe return.He has 11 more months in Iraq and will be out for good in December 2008 if all goes well...Thanks in advance...He's just a kid as so many of them are he's only 22yrs old and has been in the army since he graduated highshool. It is gonna be so hard to see him leave again,folks just don't realize just how it really is over there until you sit and listen to some of the horror stories,I just couldn't imagine...

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