On August 17th of 2006, My dad Sargent Jacob Helie was shipped off to iraq for a year until the summer of '07. Therefore missing my entire 8th year of school and my 13th birthday and my mothers 31st birthday, including christmas day... Even though my father still calls it doesnt fill in the fact that he will not be returning from work every day for an entire year, and we do not know if my father will still be alive when he is back from iraq, but mom and dad say thats the thing about the army you never know what your gonna get, whatever! I think george Bush is doing heck of a job running the united states(notice the sarcasm?).