My little Brat cousin loves this word and it is very fitting formy life lately, HOPE! I hope after I decide to retire my life will stay the same except for seeing and being apart of my other kids lives. Hope my sweet wife finishes school and gets a wonderful job doing what she loves.  Hope my parents live long enough to become great great grandparents, cause the thought of losing them or my brother or sister is unbearable. Life has been good to me in many ways, and then I never thought I was able to hope agai once I left IRAQ.  I want to go back and finish what we started and Hope that all my friends loss there are not for nothing.  Hope is what my mom gives me everytime we talk, no one will ever make me not talk to her again.  All  I wish for is hope becomes part of everyones lives to bring family back into lives of famly like it use too.  Family was a big word growing up, but as of now it is slipping away.  But one thing I swear, Bob, Kristy, and me wil never let it go away. We are family and no matter how hard things get we wil always be there for ech other!  I LOVE YOU guys.  So I hope this reaches ot and slaps some people who have lost HOPE.  Take care

Scoot