Iraq TripJay I left to Iraq today from ATL to Shannon, Ireland then lastly Kuwait. At Kuwait I took a Convoy up to an US air base to fly up to Balad, Iraq. Morning, June 14th I'm now in Shannon, Ireland for a short lay over. It is weird because when we got off the plane everyone here clapped. We were all in uniform and they apparently love us, the U.S., for what we are doing for the middle east. The lay over is suppose to be just for a hour. That sucks. I'm going to try to buy something but I don't have any Euros, we'll see how that goes. The flight here took seven hours from ATL. It sucked they packed us in like cattle. I didn't get a wink of sleep. I don't
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