Watching you in Iraq

American Fast Food in Iraq
American Fast Food in Iraq

Oh, my adult daughters do worry that I watch over them… it seems funny to them but I do like to see what they are up to once in a while. They have a common fear that I will be watching with a ‘leafy hat’ hidden somewhere and spring out with some commandment that they ‘can’t mix their creamed potatoes with their peas’… or some such thing.

When my eldest daughter was in Iraq the first time, I was able to keep track of her by following the on-line musings of an embed reporter. She would say, “I can’t tell you where I am…” and I would interject that I knew exactly where she was and list a casual — although deliberately  vague — location that was good enough to elicit an ‘oh my god’ from her. This was priceless to me because it is not often that I can impress her.

Thanks to Google Earth. I can keep track of their general travels… the above three pictures came from Google Earth and I am sure Kristin will recognize them from her travels! 🙂

I did joke about having a subcutaneous transponder inserted into each one of them… they didn’t laugh. funny

Roger Freberg

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