Texas Troops Deployed -- Houston Chronicle
Soldiers make one last stop before arriving in Iraq.
PERSIAN GULF — Spc. Migdalia Cabrera clutched a teddy bear in her right hand and an M-4 rifle in her left.
In a few hours, the 20-year-old Texas Army National Guard soldier from Houston and the chocolate-brown teddy bear named Jonathan would be boarding a plane to Baghdad to start a nine-month mission in Iraq.
It was Cabrera's first deployment, and she was a little nervous.
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My Comment: Teddy bears????
OK.
But what strikes me is the age of these soldiers. When 9/11 happened they were still kids .... and now they are soldiers who are going to war.
Fortunately, Iraq is not the war zone that it use to be.
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