Sweet Dreams...

U.S. Private First Class Leyba from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment sleeps outside an Iraqi police station in Diyala province August 20, 2008.

REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)


Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Evening...

A quick blog tonight as the info hounds came up fairly empty on any news worthy info. Enjoy the photos and continue to pray for our warriors as they push on through the month of August...

Say, when our warriors dream...what do they dream about? A newborn child they haven't held or even seen, their spouse they long to see, that special girl or guy they have leaned on and looked to for support during this deployment? Birthday celebrations they missed? Maybe, just maybe...the number of days left until they don't have to dream these dreams on a cot in the middle of Iraq? I can only imagine...

Chris, I love you son and I remember your courage every day! Never stop dreaming...

v/r,
- Collabman

An Iraqi man shows his car to U.S. Staff Sergeant Russell Sterlin (L) from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment and a translator of the U.S. army, in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)

An Iraqi woman talks to U.S. Staff Sergeant Russell Sterlin (R) from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment and a translator of the U.S. army as they search her house during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)

U.S. Private First Class Nathan Hogan from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment searches a house during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)

U.S. Private First Class Nathan Hogan from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment searches a house during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)

U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment look at a poster as they search a house during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)

A translator of the U.S. army rests inside an Iraqi police station in the village of Abu Sayda in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)


U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment walk out of a house during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)

U.S. Sergeant Nathan Spence from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment stops a car during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)

U.S. Sergeant Owen Tucker from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment searches a house during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)