4 June08
Have you ever had a dream that was so vivid…so real, it’s as if it really happened? I’m grateful for one I had.
I got to hold my son, Thomas. We were in church, my little family and I. The sun was beaming through the windows. And I was smiling at him. I could physically feel him moving in my arms. It was real enough for me. If my brain interprets those electrical impulses that my nerves send- being interpreted as the sensation of touch and sound and sight, then Einstein would argue reality itself is, in the eye of the beholder, relative.
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(oldest to youngest) Makayla, Shelby, Karley, Sydney and Thomas
Since I don't have time to write a book.... I have a large family and close circle of friends who are sincerely interetsted in what is happening in my life. They deserve to know. This site will give you insights into what I'm dealing with as a Dustoff pilot in Afghanistan, a lonely husband and father of 5 (4 daughters and a son I haven't met), as well as insights to my spiritual progression and the daily talks and experiences I have with my FATHER. Ryan
About Me
My clan
(oldest to youngest) Makayla, Shelby, Karley, Sydney and Thomas
TRACKER
- Combat Hours Flown 131
- # Missions 76
- # Patients 131
Stories to ask me about later....
- 107mm misfires
- Turning the radio off
- Italian SOF limitations
- SGT Sweet's Bronze star
- Free Gym coaches
- Suicide Bombers and burning children
- SOF shooting at Coalition aircraft
- Rectal Rocks
Books Read During This Deployment
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
- The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
- Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis- Bat Ye'or
- The Al-Qaeda Reader- (tr.)Raymond Ibrahim
- Londonistan- Melanie Phillips
- The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke- Suze Orman
- The War Within- Bob Woodward
- Our Search for Happiness- M. Russell Ballard
- The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Earth In the Beginning- Eric N. Skousen
- Joseph the Seer-
- From the Shadows- Robert M. Gates
- My Year in Iraq- Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III
- The Foreigner's Gift- Fouad Ajami
- Stupid History- Leland Gregory
- Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account- Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier- Ishmael Beah
- The Dangerous Book for Boys- Conn Iggulden
- The Chinese in America- Iris Chang
- The Nine- Jeffrey Toobin
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself- Bill Bryson
- Ireland (a novel) - Frank Delaney
- Once An Eagle- Anton Myrer (all 1300 pages of it!)
- Hearing the Voice of the Lord- Gerald Lund
- Mission Compromised- Oliver North
- Letters From the Earth- Uncensored writings of Mark Twain
- Teachings of the Presidents of the Church- Joseph Smith
- Einstein- Walter Isaacson
- Religious Literacy- Stephen Prothero
- The Challenge of Command
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
- And of course the Scriptures
1 comment:
ryan, dreams are part of the reality that crosses the veil, I am glad to know you got to hold your son. Hold on to the reality of the gifts from the Father, they are sometimes more real than the daily life we live. I had a dream once during a high fever that Grandfather Spillane was attending my medical needs in the dark hours of the night. I have no reason to doubt that he did in fact sit with me and protect me during the height of the fever. I love you. Charity
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