I love sports...but something bigger has happened.. You wont see it on the news, I've been watching. Havent even seen it on the ticker at the bottom of the news. The Al Ambar Province is about 1/3 of Iraq and includes the cities Rammadi and Fallujah. If you have paid any attention to the news over the past few years you have an idea about how bad these 2 cities were. Well the US military has officially handed over the entire Ambar Province to the Iraqi Army and Police. This is huge. After personally spending about 6 months in each city clearing ied's off of roads for coalition and Iraqi's alike there are no words that can truely convey the amount of gratification I feel today. This thing is nowhere near over but this is a true milestone and the fact that it isnt seeing any time whatsoever on the cable news channels is bs!! Thank you to everyone who has served in Iraq and to everyone who supports us. In a country where good news is no news getting positive letters, food and other supplies (that we all take for granted every day of our lives and will never truely miss until you are in the middle of the desert and there isnt a walmart down the street..). Specifically tho thankyou and congratualtions to the entire 478th Engineering Batallion (Army Reserves based in FT. Thomas, yep we're all local) who recently returned from a year long deployment  where we were responsible for finding every ied in that damn province. Happily we all came home...tho none ever the same..... 

the link if you have any interest...    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5698467