A busy day

Today was a busy day connecting with others to make this trip happen as smoothly as possible.  Out of today's lessons maybe I have learned why I am doing this for me... for everytime I have been given a challenge, I always faced it head on.  Over the past years, I have seemed to become soft...think about doing something for a greater cause, but letting the idea pass.  Well, in 4 weeks that, with God's help, I will be able to hopefully give not only a idea to everyone that you can make a difference and that good things happen with a simple idea...we must just be willing to have faith, courage and in my case...a beautiful wife with her foot implated in my....well, you have the idea.  This ride for me, is not just about Iraq, it also is a way of dealing with the losses my wife and I have experienced and the fight for life that my son has gone through.  We all have pain, grief, worries, concerns...but, what will we do, curl up in our "fox-holes" or get up, brush ourselves off and say "yes, yes I can do this"