A Glimmer of Hope

Hey mom. Sorry it's been so long since I've written. But we've been working 12-hour days and then doing other stuff on top of that, so writing to you is hard. I'm sorry. But I took the time to write you [now] because I'm tired anyway and I don't really care anymore. I'll just be tired ... I do the same thing everyday so any news is new news to me ... Well, I can barely keep my eyes open so I'm gonna go. Love you, mom. I'll see you in about 3 months or so.

Delgado, 21, was killed on Nov. 24 in Baghdad when an IED detonated near his Humvee, causing it to flip into a canal.

Army Capt. Ian P. Weikel
Dec. 15, at Taji

Please pray that I stop worrying about the IEDs and such. It's good to have a healthy sense of fear, but with all the focus and bad thoughts I think that it's making me dwell on it too much and that's not a good thing. It doesn't make me effective as a leader. It gets back to trusting God. Please pray that I learn and pray to put this whole deployment in his hands [ ... ]

Weikel, 31, was killed by an IED on April 18, 2006, in Balad.

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