This really isn't an inspiring story...but it's one I like to tell about my son during the invasion of Iraq. My son was in the Marine Corps., and his unit was one of the ones called up to go for the invasion. My son left for Iraq when he was 19, and Kerry Sanders was the embedded reporter with his unit. They didn't have all the communication equipment set up yet...so communication with our son was nonexistent. My son's father and I looked for him every time we saw Kerry Sanders on the television. My son wrote 3 times and all 3 times, he wrote on the back of an MRE box. One time he wrote that he wanted me to send toilet paper, it was like white gold over there - so my husband and I packed up 3 Xerox boxes full of toilet paper, and I sent a letter in one of the boxes. I told him the next time Kerry Sanders did a report, get behind him and jump up and down so we could see him. If he couldn't, take some of the toilet paper and TP one of Saddam's palaces. That way, if I saw the toilet paper, I'd know he'd been there.

Sherrie Dunlap
Southport, NC