More Locals Go Off To War

I learned today that one of the people I work with, not a co-worker, but a user/cliet, has been “tapped” by the Reserves to go to Iraq. She didn’t seem particularly excited about it and “congrats!” really didn’t fit. I’m really not sure what to say to someone up close and personal when they tell you they’re going to war. She’s not a relative or a close friend; otherwise, it would have been easy as I would have been bawling and hugging her and praying to God for her safety, which is really what I wanted to do at the moment she said it outloud. However, that really didn’t seem very professional.

So, I guess I’ll just try to get as much of her project finished for her as I can before she has to go since it seemed so important to her and I’ll do it with a little less grumpiness too, even when I think she’s asking me to do the impossible. I mean, she’s going to war, the least I can do is get her impossible clinical application to talk to the other impossible clinical application before she goes.

tags: Iraq, National Guard

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