TheMasterOfTheUniverse, Pet and The Bengal Brats wish you all a blessed Thanksgiving.

The Random Yak has Tagged us with eight random things..The rules of the meme:

When tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you.
Then post the rules before your list, and list eight random things about yourself.

At the end of the post, you must tag and link to eight other people. hummm..

1. I sleep with three Bengal cats and TheMasterOfTheUniverse.
2. Three Bengal Cats accompany me to the kitchen for coffee in the morning, and scream until they get their morning treats.
3. I wear a brace that looks like a corset,and Tigger likes to chew the strings.
4. When I do Bible study in the morning I have 3 helpers to turn pages.
5. I sing “It is well, with my soul”, at inappropriate times, especially if I’m nervous.
6. TheMasterOfTheUniverse is owned by SonnyBob and both of them expect treats of ice cream after dinner.
7. Tigger steals pillows, and makes me laugh when he growls as I try to get them back.
8. I have been blessed with wonderful friends on the Internet.

Tagged friends are:

Phil at [email protected]
Megan at [email protected]
Larry at [email protected]
Elaine at [email protected]
Karen at [email protected]
Troy at [email protected]
carrie at [email protected]
Matt at [email protected]

Spc. Roger G. Ling
20 years old from Douglaston, New York
Company C, 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team
February 19, 2004

When Spc. Roger G. Ling’s Humvee was struck by a homemade bomb in October of 2003, he survived the attack and he worked to keep his superior officer, Lt. Matt Homa, alive. Spc. Ling was riding in the backseat of the Humvee when it was hit. It destroyed Lt. Homa’s door.

“It almost killed me. From what I’ve been told, Roger helped keep me awake until my medic arrived.” said Lt. Homa. “Ling was a good kid. You could count on him to do anything.”

Spc. Ling was killed, along with Second Lieutenant Jeffrey C. Graham of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, when their unit came under fire from insurgents in Khalidiyah, Iraq. Only two miles from where he’d survived the attack just four months earlier.

Leona Ling said she was grateful her brother came home in August of 2003 just before leaving for Iraq.

“He had to have his tonsils taken out,” she said. “It was a blessing in disguise because we got to see him again.”

In phone calls home, the soldier spoke wistfully of returning to New York and going to college. “He wanted to hear about what was going on at home and all the latest family gossip,” Leona Ling recalled.

Survivors include his father, Wai Ling, a U.S. Army veteran.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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