Had a wonderful lunch today with Mustafa and two of the three army guys he is teaching Arabic to. Both guys (just kids, really) will be heading over to Iraq next spring-ish, but have been in the army for several years now.
Super nice guys...one is going to e-mail me his Myspace page so that I can hear his singing/songwriting...he also writes a lot of fiction (is working on about 6 different book ideas) and speaks a little each of French, German, Spanish, as well as being very well versed in Arabic. Quite a lot in only 26 years of life!
the other guy is mostly into sports and has a young wife and baby and lives on $24,000 a year...how, I do not know! I had no idea these guys were paid so little. Actually, he said that when he was in Montana, that was plenty of dough...but here in Oregon, it is quite a struggle.
I do hope they stay safe while overseas.