Guys I just want to thank you for giving something to look forward to everyday while I was deployed here in Iraq. I have been paroled and start my journey home. I wanted to thank you guys for keeping me sane by talking about something I love to do.  It will take me a few days to get home, and I wont be able to read this for a few days. Im really looking forward to getting home to see the family, but mostly to kick some bass!!

Thanks again guys

No, it's thanks to you that we are able to go fishing and talk to each other on these boards!

Thanks to you we all can enjoy the great sport of bass fishing, I hope you get home soon and enjoy some well deserved r and r. Thank you  

No, it's thanks to you that we are able to go fishing and talk to each other on these boards!

Will speaks the truth. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.

Welcome home.

nb1226,

Thank you for your dedication and sacrifices to this great nation!  Without you guys (and gals) we would not get to enjoy all these freedoms.  Glad you are finally coming home!!  I hope you catch a new PB shortly after arrival.  

Keith

We are the honored ones here on the forum and in this country to have men such as you, willing to serve during such hard times as we find ourselves. May such spirit and understanding spread throughout the whole nation. The nation owes you a dept that can never be repaid. As a fellow veteran from times long past I salute you and Welcome Home.

THANK YOU!! For a job well done.

At least I hope it was a job well done. That "paroled" thing had me a little scared. 8-)

Right on Brother!!!! Thanks for all you are doing for our country and the people of Iraq. May you have a safe trip home.

Thanks for fighting for this country. And have a safe trip home.

NO, THANK YOU!

God bless and WELCOME HOME.

I sincerely hope that your bassin is the best of your life when you return home.

My hat is off to you and all who have served there and everywhere!  My heartfelt gratitude goes out to all of you!

God bless and thank you for all you do! Have a safe trip home and wet some line! You deserve it!!!

Thank you for your service!!!

And...welcome home...here's to "tight lines" (plagiarized from ReelMech)

Welcome Home and Thank You!! Now you've got a years worth of bass fishin to catch up on.

It's all been said already...so I will simply say thanks!

Come on home!  You've been gone long enough.  I thank you for your service to this great country.

Can't say too much more then whats been said already.  Thank you for all that you have done!!  God Bless and Tight Lines.

As stated previously, the thanks go to our servicepeople like you to keep things in order. I might have a good idea for those of us who do have boats.  Is there any way that we can contact the USO or someone else to let anyone coming back home know that there is a fishing trip on hold for those who are back from a tour??  I know that after a hard few days at work, a day on the lake brings back a heap of sanity to my brain, can't imagine what it could do to a person who has been in the desert for months!!  Me and my boat would be at their disposal on my day off!!  I will research this further and get back to y'all!!!

nb1226.....glad to hear you are coming home!!!!!  

the bass should be afraid, very afraid!!!!

and thanks for your service.  

Alfred

God bless you for all you have done for us over there. Get home safe.

Thank you for your service and welcome home!!!  

Nb,thank you for your service to our country.May God bless you and your family.I hope you really tear 'em up(the bass not the family...LOL).

nb

Welcome home.   I got back this past November.  Enjoy your time with family and friends.  Also a day at the lake is agreat way to relax and get back into the groove of being home.  Again welcome home from a fellow brother in arms

No thanks for you all!!!!

Guys I just want to thank you for giving something to look forward to everyday while I was deployed here in Iraq. I have been paroled and start my journey home. I wanted to thank you guys for keeping me sane by talking about something I love to do. It will take me a few days to get home, and I wont be able to read this for a few days. Im really looking forward to getting home to see the family, but mostly to kick some bass!!

Thanks again guys

couple of pieces of advice

1. if your married remember she has been a single parent for a year... there WILL be an adjustment period.

2.  Stuff is going to "bug you" for a long time for me its driving thru big cities and the "tornado sirens", they are exactly the same sound of the siren they used to warn us of incomming, and the 4th of July will never be fun again... just be aware... don't make a big deal of it... I just always make sure I mentally prepare myself when I have to drive to Milwaukee or when I know there is going to be fireworks, and I am ALWAYS indoors on Sat at noon when they test the sirens..

3. CONTINUE TO WORK OUT... you will gain weight hahahhaaha when I first got back everyone wanted to fatten me up since I "lost so much weigh" hahaha I just got INTO shape and they wanted me to get out of shape... and the home cooking.. MMMMMMMMM man... fat fat fat.. but good good good...

4.  If you feel like you need to talk to someone TALK TO SOMEONE... it takes a bigger man to admit that he isn't handling being back in the world than one that holds it all in and beats the crap out of a spouse or worse     you have to take care of yourself...

5.  DON'T let the boat monkey anywhere near you... with all that pay you have saved up he is going to be screaching at the top of his lungs...

6. ENJOY THE FISHING... it was the ticket for me getting my head back on straight...

welcome back

SFC Algiere