Today I received some more bad news. My 20 year old nephew, Steven, who is in the Army Reserves found out he is being deployed to Iraq. Not only is he being deployed, but he is going in the infantry. He's going to be right in the thick of things. The entire family is reeling from this news. I am so scared for him. He is too young to be going to war. His deployment is scheduled to last 400 days, of which 30 of those will be in Wisconsin for training. He will be allowed 2 weeks of R and R. My sister (his mother) is beside herself. I can hardly blame her.
Steven is currently engaged to a wonderful girl named Christine and they have decided to get married before he ships out in August. So on August 2nd we will be holding a memorial gathering for my stepfather, Chuck and on August 3rd we will be celebrating the joyful union of Steven and Christine in a small ceremony to be held at my sisters house. We are all in for an emotional weekend. Lets just hope we can keep it all together.
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