As some of you know, I had some hope of deploying one more time with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.
That will not be happening.
As you may have heard in the State of the Union message, the number of troops in Afghanistan is being cut more rapidly than the original plan. The unit I was going to go with is not going. And at my very advanced age even the most hawkish in Congress could not start a war fast enough for me to deploy again--at least let's all hope so.
But it is not like I will be bored. Yesterday I heard from Xavier on Facebook. Xavier is the 14-year-old from Haiti we hope to adopt. The paperwork on the adoption is stuck in the bottomless morass of Haitian government bureaucracy. Haiti combines Carribean urgency with French bureaucratic efficiency. He can only get on facebook occasionally, but it was nice to chat with him.
If you pray, please pray for Xavier and his orphanage.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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