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This show makes me so uneasy - I can't even watch the commercials advertising it without getting a sick sinking feeling in my stomach. Perhaps my outlook on it will be different when Matt gets home, but for now, I think I'll pass on watching it thank-you-very-much. LOL.

My coworkers continually talk about it and always ask me about it like I'm an expert on the subject; I told them I don't plan on watching it, and that surprised them because apparently they're in the mindset that because my fiancee's "Over There" (pun intended), I should be a huge advocate of the show. I'm a little wary of <i>anything</i> FX puts out as an "FX Original." They sure struck fear into the hearts of America with such winning pieces as "Smallpox" and "Oil Storm." They like to play out worst-case scenarios, and that concerns me about what twists they'll add to this show.

Gosh! I can't even watch army recruiting commercials! How would I make it through an episode of this show? hehehehehe

Steve bought an international cell phone over there for a couple hundred dollars. He just recharges the minutes at $30/for 1 Hr. But whenever someone calls him, it doesn't count towards his minutes. So, I bought a calling card that is $.29/min (the cheapest i've found) and am able to just go online and recharge to the same pin number. I don't know if its only at Steve's camp, but alot of the guys in his Brigade have them.

P.S. How much do you love the little quotes myfooddiary randomly gives you? some of them really crack me up!

in response to your above post, i understand what you're saying and in no way am i about to advocate that people should watch it. however, i think its something that is an eye opener to people who have no clue the sacrifices that military and their families go through. its something to hopefully make people thankful and see how fortunate they are to be in the U.S

OK, out of curiosity I watched about 20 minutes of one of the episodes of this show. I saw a attack by our soldiers on "the bad guys", and decided that I didn't want to watch anymore. Jim's unit hasn't experienced anything like that and I don't care to watch enough to see if they portray what his unit has been doing over there. Of course, our troops have experienced such things we have lost over 1800 soldiers. But I have a feeling that the show is only going to show such missions and I don't care to watch it again. What would be really cool is if they would have a story like the ones that have touched me. My most favorite story being the friendship that has developed between my husband, SSG James Joplin and his interpreuter Joseph. They have become close friends and will actually miss each other once Jim leaves. And Ryan don't rag him about that!! Ha, ha

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