[Ayla]

As most of you know, we have a very close friend over there. He called us recently with the joyous news that he will, god willing, be home in around 3 weeks. He said that the citizens of Iraq are fed up with the "insurgents" and are fighting back them own selves. He said that's something we won't hear about over in the States but that they're constantly finding some "insurgents" dead in alley ways, killed by the local citizens taking their country back. He really thinks that things are looking up over there.