I'm not sure why I continue to blog. Everyone blogs but very few are read. Whatever. I blog anyway. 

  I was in the U.S. Navy for sixteen years. In January of 2004 I was sent to Iraq. The war was just under a year old. While in Kuwait and Iraq, I composed emails to some friends and loved ones. The emails were titled Life in the Sandbox.  I recently found those emails. I'll be posting them on here over the next several weeks. I found them mildly entertaining. If you're reading this, I hope you do too.

   peace.

   Jon