Please pray for the new blogger Solid. Below are two of his posts from GOP.com.

I am recuperating in Kuwait, thank you very much. I am getting around OK but until I am released back to duty, I am stuck here surfing everywhere I can.A comrade turned me onto this site while he was visiting one of his men...some of you know him, or so he says.I take a lot of naps.Can't wait to get back to the sewer called Iraq. I would like to take "kennedy" back with me and show him the "ropes".

Posted by Solid on Monday, January 15, 2007 5:21 PM

Thanks. Got hit with some flying metal objects when I wasn't looking. Not bad. Minor stuff. Lower legs. Lower belly. Should be ready to go in two weeks. HAd the chance to go to Germany and then home but I turned it down. Other guys got worse and stayed. Couldn't play that card.
Posted by Solid on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:22 AM

Please keep Mark's son, MJ, in your prayers as his training intensifies and he prepares for deployment later this year.

Remember the proud but nervous parents and family as well!

Please pray for the family of Diane Miller, a good friend of Susan's. Diane's obit is below, and Susan's post on the Memory Book is below that.

Please pray for Susan as she will be out of town for work and will miss the funeral, unless she is able to make other plans at the last second.

Diane M. Miller, age 50, of Williamstown, NJ, on January 4, 2007. Born in Phila., she lived there before moving to Williamstown 45 years ago. Diane was a member of the Beacon Presbyterian Church in Phila. She was a respiratory therapist at Cooper Medical Center in Camden and a sleep study technician at Nazareth Hospital in Phila. Loving daughter of Doris Miller and the late David W. Miller. Dear sister of David M. Miller (Jan) and Dee Harmon (Sam). Dear aunt of Michelle Chism (JW), David C. Miller (Christine), Neil Hinshillwood and Amber Hinshillwood. Dear grand-aunt of Gabrielle and Nicholas Miller. Also survived by many cousins, other close relatives and friends.

From Susan:

There aren't enough words to express how I feel, how great it was to have Diane a part of our lives, and how sad I feel for the family and especially the nieces and nephews who meant so much to Diane -- that's all she seemed to talk about. I will miss her so much. The boys and I will always remember the camping trips, the poconos, the shore, "Wally World", BEEUUUNA VISTA and its famous "non-denominational church service"; and the time we camped at a lake (I wish I could remember the name) when the kids were little and we threatened to play "Amber Ball" instead of "Volley Ball"; Single Purpose weekends at Cape May and how grateful everyone was that Diane and I bunked together because we both snored so loud no one else wanted us; the late nights at the Diner, and that summer we went to about 10 weddings. I could go on and on. I especially appreciated all those awesome times on New Year's day with pork and sauerkraut where we friends were always treated as family. I could say so much more - I am so glad that God allowed her to be a part of my life. She blessed me so, so much.

Let's remember our good friend Garry, (LCRW) who has "quietly" been under the weather (as in he wasn't speaking up much). He is starting to feel better, but let's pray that God heals him all the way quickly!

Ed

Stephen, my youngest brother-in-law [38] passed out, hit th floor, bounced either once or twice.
Still in the horsepistol for observation. An otherwise healthy kinda guy. no obvious reason for it.
p.s. five boys at home. this guy really needs to go back to work - [refrigeration contractor]

2 Rangers (oddly two brothers in the same unit), they need to finish their last class, to rejoin their unit in afghannyland. their unit lost a man two weeks ago.
these two men - I used to call them boys, but just can't do that anymore -(from my church) desparately wanted to quit Ranger school to get back over, their team told them NO. Finish!
they have three weeks to go and must pass the last class to get the desire of their heart.