Today is Monday, March 8th,2010 and it is now 431 AM here in Brooklyn, New York City.
As I explained, Jackie has brothers. The eldest died on Jolo (an island between Mindinao and Borneo) in combat against Abu Sayyaf, an Islamo-fascist gueriila army. I also spoke of 2 other brothers both currently serving, the elder 1 a Scout Ranger, the other an Infantryman. There is also a younger brother, 24.
In a military family like Jackie's there is always going to be a blacksheep who rejects the button down conformity. This brother is the black sheep.
Last week there signal problems with Jackie's bradband so instead of her staying up all night to IM with me, she went to sleep around midnite.
The next morning (Ph Time) she did not talk again which is very unusual for her but many unexpected things can happen in that part of the world.
A good example would be in early 2007. At that time Rizza was im Mindanao getting our main house, in the family compound, ready while I finished my last few months in the IDF. We used to IM a couple of hours each day when I was off duty.
One day Rizza stopped IMing. I called home, phones were out of order...Mindanao has volcanoes, earthquakes literally monthly (6 on the Richter Scale is normal), mud slides, flooding, tsunamis (very rarely), cholera, ebola, rabies, snake bites, rampant crime, and at tat time 11 rebel movements (now there are only 8)...So I began to get crazy ideas. 6 days later, I Am offduty in Jerusalem and I see, in the library, a small article in the International Herald`. Apparently a dredging ship (underwater construction) had inadvertantly tore up a major undersea cable off of Taiwan. The article continued saying that phones and related services like DSL would be affected for about 3 weeks! Cell phones at the time were not worth the effort because of our remote location in the bush.
I thought that maybe some calamity had befallen Jackie or1of her daughters.
To be continued...
As I explained, Jackie has brothers. The eldest died on Jolo (an island between Mindinao and Borneo) in combat against Abu Sayyaf, an Islamo-fascist gueriila army. I also spoke of 2 other brothers both currently serving, the elder 1 a Scout Ranger, the other an Infantryman. There is also a younger brother, 24.
In a military family like Jackie's there is always going to be a blacksheep who rejects the button down conformity. This brother is the black sheep.
Last week there signal problems with Jackie's bradband so instead of her staying up all night to IM with me, she went to sleep around midnite.
The next morning (Ph Time) she did not talk again which is very unusual for her but many unexpected things can happen in that part of the world.
A good example would be in early 2007. At that time Rizza was im Mindanao getting our main house, in the family compound, ready while I finished my last few months in the IDF. We used to IM a couple of hours each day when I was off duty.
One day Rizza stopped IMing. I called home, phones were out of order...Mindanao has volcanoes, earthquakes literally monthly (6 on the Richter Scale is normal), mud slides, flooding, tsunamis (very rarely), cholera, ebola, rabies, snake bites, rampant crime, and at tat time 11 rebel movements (now there are only 8)...So I began to get crazy ideas. 6 days later, I Am offduty in Jerusalem and I see, in the library, a small article in the International Herald`. Apparently a dredging ship (underwater construction) had inadvertantly tore up a major undersea cable off of Taiwan. The article continued saying that phones and related services like DSL would be affected for about 3 weeks! Cell phones at the time were not worth the effort because of our remote location in the bush.
I thought that maybe some calamity had befallen Jackie or1of her daughters.
To be continued...