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Show Page 6 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, December 25, 2008 PET OF THE WEEK m M - -V h - - '".V i v!l ill J2 MJiJB.liUl.IM Uv 1 U- lid; mw Lai 4 mi v.. SUWUM Mon-Fri 1 0 am - 6 pm Sat 9 am - 5 pm 268 West Center Street Provo 374-5520 www.artista.net I f t "" "'""" ""a "i ,A. Ww I fS -. - , . - i i. . i. " ' '"" 1"' " l'r"" '"'"" n - ! '"' ' . . i. 11 mi.n 11 1 iiiBiiiiiili.iiii.il i.-.. o.dodei Sfffili ran- II V.? pi B Hfi 'P( ! fit 4111 rakuiBPJ ID QflDEUS fill 511 m ML HflCDID lv einnacnE in IS SOLO are PTTliTTTiRu LUbJUijMU jUJLu Iti) Oil mim tMBirxm em mm 1 1 LWDSDDSIPJ inmrnoM'tom-mm nil DEonnm heeissoniES "DDYidsricniFCff mi Dinnnm EnonoiDinv m oisiaii piigiis sovioi-flurnomc m m m 1IEI 31! Mm : ' 4 ' - The North County Pet of the Week is a male Irish Setter named Owen. He is 8 Vi months old and has a playful, fun personality. per-sonality. He has a great temperament tem-perament and would be great around kids. Costs for adopting dogs at the North Utah Valley Animal Shelter are $160 for a male and $135 for a female. It costs $90 to adopt a cat. The cost cover fees for neuter services, rabies vaccinations, licensing, micro-chipping micro-chipping and a health exam. To adopt Owen or another animal, contact the animal shelter shel-ter at 785-3442 or visit the facility facil-ity 193 N. 2000 West in Lindon. You can also visit their Web' site at www.nuvas.org. Commitment of todays draftees Staff Sgt. Brock Jones When I began looking into joining the Army in 2001, 1 felt like I was on my own in new territory. I was well past the age where parental permission was needed to join and hadn't yet tied any knots creating the need for permission NOTES from any FROM IRAQ significant other. I talked to my parents and grandparents, friends and other oth-er relatives about my decision to join, listened to their expressions expres-sions of support and concern. But for the most part, the path leading up to the day I left for basic training was one I felt I traveled alone. That all changed the day I left Lehi, boarded a plane for Fort Sill, Okla., and shipped off to basic training. I didn't realize real-ize it then, but the day I joined the Army I unwittingly pulled many platoons worth of people with me into military life. The families and friends of military service members are the only "draftees" in our nation's all-volunteer all-volunteer military. Now nearly through my third year-long deployment to the Middle East I have seen just how much families and friends of service members are involved in the conflicts and battles and firefights that their soldiers endure. They hear of the hardships and difficulties of their soldiers, unable to do much more than attempt to understand. A soldier's family and friends find themselves in the role of concerned and often uninformed supporter, not because be-cause of anything they actively did, but because someone they loved and cared for decided to join the military. In the beginning of the war in Iraq we communicated only by letter and all news both to and from Iraq was at least a month old by the time it was received. Our loved ones back home were starving for word from us as much asve hungered hun-gered for word from them. As time went on, telephones and eventually the Internet became readily available for our use. The communication situation situa-tion in most cases has vastly improved since 2003, but even with the ability for near-daily communication, the difficulties placed on those who support service members is immense. ' The soldier remains busy and actively engaged, living the day-to-day rigors and dangers and doldrums of deployed life. Those back home, on the other hand, are left to watch and wait for word from the front. Even with the improvements in communication methods many loved ones awaiting news about their soldier have discovered the truth behind the words, "No news is good news." At last count there are currently around 180,000 service members in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. When we begin to talk about the total number of people personally person-ally affected by those deployments, deploy-ments, the numbers don't begin to tell the whole story. The total number of people affected af-fected by the overseas service of so many American men and women, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters is impossible impos-sible to fully comprehend. For that matter, the total number of Americans affected by the deaths of over 4,000 fighting men and women will never be fully tabulated. We can never completely understand the impact our actions ac-tions can have on others. 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