Monday, November 12, 2007

Jordan's New Friend

I talked to Jordan on Saturday. He sounded exhausted as he has every time I've talked to him since he arrived in Iraq. He was about to fall asleep after working for twelve hours on a day that was suppose to be his day off. Even though he was so incredibly tired and he didn't get a day off, I never once heard him complain. He is a true soldier!

The reason he was deprived his day off was because the Vice President of Iraq was making a visit on his Air Force Base. Jordan got to see him and meet a lot of other Iraqi policemen. He was very impressed with the character of all the men he met. This was Jordan's first real encounter with any Iraqi citizens. He said that they were very interested in his age and whether or not he was married and had children. They would ask, "Madam?" or "Children?"

One Iraqi policeman, who spoke very little English, came up to Jordan. The policeman pointed to himself and then pointed to Jordan. He said, "Friends!" and gave Jordan a thumbs up. Jordan politely smiled and said, "Yes, Friends." The policeman then noticed that Jordan had a watch on just like he did. He pointed to his watch and then pointed to Jordan's watch. He said, "Trade?" Jordan then traded watches with the Iraqi policeman.

I thought this was such a cool story, and I just had to share it. It's stories like these that we don't hear on the news. There are good things happening admits the all the chaos going on over there.


-posted by Lindsay

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