FELIZ THANKZGIVING!

Well Where o Where can my baby be...?

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away... So be thankful for what is giveth... cuz it can be taketh away at anytime... Not really a threat... just makes each moment that much more special... Remember you will not be here forever... I plan too... but you probably won't be that lucky... juz kidding...

Well you ask me what my definition of what a homie is...

There is a lot to be thankful... especially M-Lo... For pete's sake we are Americans... Doesn't get better than that... Even in the military... In the history of war... How many soldiers in the past were able to sit down and play with a paper turkey while sipping sparkling cider...? Not too many...

You wanna be my homie... Well hey I'll tell you something...

Funny how fast you can develop a pseudo family... Just like how you can't choose who your brother, sister, mother, father, or strange uncle will be... They develop the same dynamic... You have the rational, irrational, talkative, overly aggressive, underly passive, and always a llama... well at least our Family does... When a family is formed... it is not perfect... it takes a little give and take from everyone... A true family gets past all the differences that certain personalities present... There will be fights... Family won't talk or will want to avoid each other... Natural for a forgivable amount of time... But if everyone excercises the right amount of patience and respect for each other... it will work itself out... Sometimes it takes a little lip biting when one side will not shut up... Are you rolling over...? I don't think so... Some fights are not fights worth fighting for... especially when there really is nothing to be fighting over...

I'm true to the game and I'm down with my homies...

How different are we...? not much... on a technical tip... your genetics are 99.9e^10 percent the same as the person you hate the most... So what is the problem...? Funny how that lil difference will make us look, talk, and unfortunatly act towards each other... It makes us live and it makes us kill... There is so much to be thankful for... you think a rational person would focus their efforts there... as opposed to making a better knife... and when the knifes are down and distrust rules the land... Is that grounds to place the one that was our enemy in a corner alone...

Took my first swig chillin at my homies crib…

Maybe if more of us took the risk and popped a lil crystal with those that we don't know it would make a world a different place... and get us all home faster...

My situation with my homies wasn't all fun... Sometimes sad... Sometimes bad...

Thanksgiving lunch was a great time... such a novel idea Thanksgiving is... Unfortunatly we cannot ignore where we are and why we are here... Nothing made that clearer than as we walked home from our Turkey infused lunch today... Smiles and laughs faded as the sound of the blast reverbed throughout our bodies... Looking to the east we saw the enemy's evil face... A VBIED detonated at our front gate... the same gate that children greeted me at just yesterday on my return from Bayji... I don't have the details... I don't know if anybody was hurt or worse... All I can do is throw a prayer for those souls at our gates... And as selfish as it sounds... be thankful that my friends and I are safe today...

...I had to stay strong...

-LSoB