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SEAMAN JULIAN GROVES
has not heard directly when he will arrive.”
“He could still be inside Iraq,” she said, explaining her brother was stationed with the 24th Infantry, a large tank unit which swept around Iraq. “The last time we talked to him was on January 16 around noon,” she said, adding it was the afternoon before the air raid began.
“He couldn’t say much of anything and we were all excited and talking at once,” she said, adding her brother’s wife was present for the call with their newborn daughter, 7 months old.
“We know there is still a contingent of the 24th in Iraq blowing up bunkers and ammunition sites,” Mrs. Sharp said of her brother’s possible location. “We get all our news from the television and newspapers,” she said, explaining while her family ususally does not watch a great deal of television, during the past seven months, they have spent many evenings watching CNN News. “I started making my brother a quilt of red, white and blue with stars and stripes and eagles,” she said, adding it started with “tears of sadness and has ended with stars and stripes of happiness.”
While news is limited coming from her brother, the family has written often. “You could say my mother is on pins and needles and that would put it lightly, but my father is taking it better,” she said. Her brother attended military schools as a youth, was an active member of ROTC and graduated from a military college. “He is very professional about this. He said he just wants to do what needs to be done,” she said.
His attitude is shared by Navy
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