Got a minute?
Want to make a Marine's day?
Well, here ya go: UFCUSMC at Yahoo dot com. I want y'all to be able to write to Norm, but I don't wanna be responsible for him getting spammed to death, hence the way I wrote that, ya know? Don't worry about the fact that ya don't know 'im.Doesn't matter.
Just let him know how ya found about him and that'll be enough. He's my brother.
Please send him a note.
In fact, send him as many notes as you want. I don't know how often he'll be able to write back, but, you know how it is over there.
He's in Iraq.
He's a machine gun/door guy.
Like, he sits in the door of the vehicle with a machine gun, protecting or covering the guys when they go out to pick up... non-living other guys.
(I refuse to say dee-ee-ay-dee and the word "Marine" in the same sentence. Just can't do it.)
But, he's on that detail.
AND, he wants to be a cop when he gets back. Geez, Norm.
Have much of a death wish, do ya? ANYway...
drop him a line, if yer of a mind.
He'd appreciate it and so would my Dad and me. If ya wanna know who Norm is, go here.
It's an old site of his that he and his friend McKenna had, before McKenna died.
Yeah.
Young guy and all.
Not sure what happened there.
Only that it had something to do with McKenna and a gun.
Never did find out if it was an accident or not.
I assume it was an accident.
Still, it sucks either way, poor kid. There are pictures there.
This is one of Norm.
Looks just like Dad at that age.
If he's lucky, he'll look like Dad his whole life.
Dad's cute, too.
Kinda looks like Rob Reiner. But, aaanyway...
once again, it's UFCUSMA at Yahoo dot com. His snail mail, for those of you who'd rather write by hand or send care packages, is: LCpl Norman W. Vanaman III
1st MLG HQ CO PRP
Unit 42175
FPO AP 96426-2175 Anything you wanna do would be wonderful. And, if I find out or hear of any anti-military dickwads fuckin' with him because of this, I WILL hunt you down and make you kill yourself. Slowly and horribly. Other than that, write away.
And, thank you.
Don't know why, exactly, but the instant I clicked "save", I started to cry about him being there, for the first time.
Fuck, I hate this and won't ya please write to him?Again... thanks.
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Thanks for the info/invite about your brother. I'm on my way to Kuwait in 2 months myself (this is a "club med" tour for us), I've got it easy compared to your brother. I've been to Baghdad in 2003, got the shirt and burned it so I have an idea what it's like. I'll shoot him an email.
Posted by: kenna at February 12, 2006 11:21 PM (3KiXX)
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Thanks, Kenna...
Send 'im as many as ya want or have time to.
I sure do appreciate it, especially since it's you.
(Meaning: I know you're cool, plus y'all have some things in common and he could probably use some support from someone who knows what he's going through.)
Send 'im as many as ya want or have time to.
I sure do appreciate it, especially since it's you.
(Meaning: I know you're cool, plus y'all have some things in common and he could probably use some support from someone who knows what he's going through.)
Posted by: Stevie at February 13, 2006 02:21 PM (wrSEo)
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