Hi Jim, We shall be praying for Matt.Please tell him we send our best wishes.He may remember me from when I wrote to him while he was in training.Tom and I thank him for his service on our behalf. My sister's eldest son David is to be deployed to Iraq in early December.It will be difficult to say goodbye to him for us all.His younger brother Philip was killed in June in an auto accident two weeks after his high school graduation. We have missed you on Memories,Jim.It has been a quiet summer on the list.Now that summer is winding down,the activity may pick up. For those of you who have been wondering how my step-father is doing after his heart surgery,he has been coming along very slowly.He is home,but is having trouble keeping up his oxygen level. Do any of you have any special plans for Labor Day?We are going to the Chesapeake with a few of our friends.This weekend I was in Cape May enjoying the waning days of summer.The birds were flocking and preparing to go south,already.A sign of a difficult winter to come,I wonder?Are you "snowbirds"preparing to go soon too? Jerilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Thorne" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 5:41 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Hello All ! > Hi all, > > Matt has finally been deployed to Iraq. He arrived last Monday and is "in > place" now as an Arabic Interpreter with a Radio Battalion. He emailed > early this morning from Iraq and says it is much better than life at Camp > Le Jeune MCB in South Carolina. More informal and less regimented. He > also has air-conditioned quarters and eats in the officers mess, so that > sounds ok to me. He has liked being in the Middle-East, and I wish I > could join him. > > Thanks for writing, Pat. > > We've been so busy with Matt's deployment finances, etc that there has > been little time to think about memories of NJ. As I wrote before, I > thoroughly enjoyed our week in Monmouth County during May and revisited so > many places I had not seen for 50 years or more. However, I am always > happy to return to peaceful Prince Edward Island after the traffic, > crowds, and pace of life in Monmouth County. > > I invited Diesel to stay with us here on PEI but he said they would not be > going that far, only to Nova Scotia, and perhaps next year when he has the > RV. > > Jim from Prince Edward Island > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >