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		<title>Day 157 &#8211; 208 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Morning As daylight pours in and begins to warm the sand, I will be preparing to get on a helicopter. Many thoughts weigh heavy on my mind tonight, with the next day&#8217;s travel being especially significant. No matter what happens in the coming hours or days, lives will surely be changed, landmark moments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=158&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 151 &#8211; 214 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not forget the sorrow&#8230; I often said early on in writing this blog that it was getting harder and harder to write. While my original intention was to provide a nearly daily account of my experiences, this has surely, over time and much to my regret, degraded to the point that many of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=151&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 100 &#8211; 265 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dreams of Better Days It is pouring. The monotonous rumble of plinking on the metal roof of my CHU and the sound of thunder rolling in the background take over. I love it. If I close my eyes, I can almost transport myself to a memory of drinking hot chocolate in a chilly house, elbows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=147&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 69 &#8211; 296 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last 29 Days I swear i have written this entry ten times, and just cannot get it to come together. It always ends up degrading into disorganized rants about one thing or another, and so I scrap it. But i know you all carea lot more about knowing how we are doing than how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=142&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 40 &#8211; 325 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peaks and Valleys Whether you ask a retiree, with over twenty years of service, or a young service member with just a few years in, they will invariably tell you that life in the military has its highs and lows, and they are usually in the extremes. You are either sitting in a retirement service [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=135&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 34 &#8211; 331 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Close To Home There are no doubt, these certain, indelible moments in life that change you, and your world as you know it, forever. These moments often happen in times that make you reevaluate your concepts of life and death, safety and security, and how much control we really have over the general chaos that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=117&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 22 &#8211; 343 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reality Check Yet again i have put off the update until too much has piled up. So instead of organizing by day, this time i have organized by subject. Sorry it has taken so long, but this time it was for good reason. This one was harder to write&#8230; In the CHU A CHU, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=77&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 14 &#8211; 351 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Sweet Home &#8230; sort of &#8230; The Recap Again the time has come for an update, so i suppose we will begin with where we had last left off. Last time i wrote, we had arrived at camp victory, and were preparing for drivers training on the MRAP. Day 9 &#8211; Needless Struggle I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=76&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 8 &#8211; 357 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurry up and wait&#8230; We are long overdue for an update and now it is going to be very hard to fit in all that has happened over the past week without making this a ten page email and boring you all to tears. so here goes.. lets break it down. We left off on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=6&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 2 &#8211; 363 to go &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; It feels like day three because i started on the 8th, or day 1 because i haven&#8217;t slept, but it is officailly day 2 of my 365 day journey. It started at 0400 on the 8th, saying goodbye to Kristen and Sean at the airport after an awesome few days together following 2 months [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=damieniniraq.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9043676&amp;post=3&amp;subd=damieniniraq&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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