Sgt Hook

is on the ground in Afghanistan. God Speed, sarge!

For what it's worth, a friend of Andrew and mine at church has been deployed to Afghanistan as well. He's a civil engineer in one of the armed services (let's just leave it at that for now), but a father of one as well as one on the way. I haven't had time to really organize my thoughts about this, but they amount to something along the lines of our nation is at war, a war that will involve and touch more people around us than we have seen since Vietnam. With the recent call ups of various National Guard units to serve in Iraq, I ask, "Is America prepared for mobilization?"