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Some sounds are worth keeping....


I was cleaning up the old messages from my cell phone and decided to commit the contents to my weblog. The first message was from way back in the summer. It was so cute I decided to save it a while. I had met my wife and kids in Pigeon Forge for a weekend getaway from training, and my daughter called my cell phone with my wife's cell phone and asked me to talk to her. When I picked up mine and answered she was ecstatic.

The second message was my wife calling me so that my daughter could sing a song to me. I was either on duty or in the classroom so my voicemail caught that one as well. She wasn't quite two, so the way she can sing is kind of amazing.

The third message is from a guy who wanted to borrow some teaching materials for a SINCGARS class I had taught....no big deal.

The last message was actually from today. A friend of mine who I went to OBC with returned a call to me while I was at work. He is on leave before he goes to his next duty station. Unfortunately his wife and child can't come with him, so I really feel sorry for him. I wish I had more time to hang out with him, I think he and I had a lot in common. Well, just listen for yourself.



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