Some Good News From Iraq

So, in case I hadn't mentioned it, one of my cousins is currently deployed with the Seabees in Iraq.

He's a civil enginerd who was active Navy for quite some time, but now he's a reservist and he's been busy rebuilding stuff since he was deployed in March. He forwarded this along about one of his contractors. (.pdf file) My cousin is the one on the right hand side of the picture and was the contractor's supervisor.

Talk about being determined to rebuild your country! Holy Crap! As Pete said in his email: "One of our success stories. You could not think up some of the stuff these contractors run up against." After all the junk you hear on the news every night about how Iraqis are bickering about the constitution or are killing one another because of any number of reasons, it's very nice to read a story about one guy who is incredibly determined to get his country up and running again.