Hello all, especially, 2B2 Westfield State.

I am sitting hear at a US Army Base waiting to stage with 3000 troops to Bosnia Herzogovinia for a 9 month peacekeeping tour. Our flights are delayed and we are anxious to get to Bosnia even though our safety there is questionable and wonder if we should stay behind for homeland defense. We've been busy with weapons training and have set up an emergency operations center to stay in the game.

We peace keepers made this decision 18 months ago, volunteering to go even when our family, friends, and coworkers sometimes discourage us from leaving or asked us to stay out of harms way. Some of these soldiers lost their civilian jobs. I was told point blank by an associate that I was stupid to leave my consulting job and its perks to walk the line in Bosnia, someone else's problem. If we didn't help them who would help us, NATO has decided to act as one, passing a resolution on a clause that if one Nation was attacked all of NATO was attacked.

I think this weeks events have changed some of those minds as US military enlistments are up, recruitment offices overwhelmed, especially the Marines.

A part of my life was lost this week as I work in New York City 6 months of the year and often stay and work at the World Trade Center (WTC). This past August I was at the Marriot in Building 3 and had a last hurrah with a friend at the "Windows on the World" bar/restaurant in Building 1. I walked through the WTC mall one afternoon thinking about my upcoming work in Bosnia and the last bombing at the WTC and American apathy about the world. Not only are those memories coming to light by the memories of my clients offices in the WTC that are now gone. I called my coworkers the past few days and they were down at Wall Street that attack day and fled the scene OK, I don't know the fate of my clients.

I am focused on my mission with NATO and I am glad I never questioned my resolve to serve. Take care and God Bless.