Email conversation, Mon 8/30/10 7:49 AM to 11:38PM

Mom:
How is he? i know that you must be pretty upset since he is a close friend of yours. every thing overthere has been stepped up. its not about patrol. the news said that a couple bases were attacked by enemy wearing your guys clothes. account for everything, dont leave stuff lying aroung. follow your training and listen to your gut. you knew you would have to face this when you signed up. you are going to see friends get hurt, that a part of the the job. thats why you guys got trained on iv's. i'm sorry your friend is hurt.

Jeremiah:
he is stable on a ventilator
i wasnt even anywhere near him at all but when i heard i just dropped everything
it was a 16 hour mission and we went to the place that has been stepped on or drove in by americans since 09

and we fucked that place up
but i dont really know i mean i am gonna keep doing what i do
but its different now

Mom:
Will you be able to continue to get updates on him? Ryan is home, he says to call him. He told me he lost a bud his first tour.

Jeremiah:
he is stable but on a ventilator
they are doing exploratory sugery on him

Mom:
Do you know if he was shot or shrapnel?

Jeremiah:
alot of shrapnel

Mom:
I agree, it changes everything. Up till now it's always been something your hear about on tv or other guys talking about. Reality, is when it touches you or someone close to you. It's right there in front of you in your face. I didn't tell you this but the weekend before last I saw on CNN.com that a couple guys got killed in east Afghanistan, and it was the first morning that I woke up without an email from you in a long time, so I spend the day wondering if something happened to you. Pitiful aint I? That was the day I finally located you on the map. The bad thing is that I cant seem to stop looking at the news to see what's going on.

Jeremiah:
i thought i told you that if anything happens to me by law they will notify you within 4 hours
you will never be outta the loop
i have just been down lately tho

he is going to be ok tho... alot of injuries