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- It was now January 1991, and I was in the middle of Operation Desert Shield followed by Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf – and my wife was holding down our household and taking pictures of David to send to me in the desert.
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- My wife and I had few opportunities to communicate while I was deployed to the desert and the only satellite phones available for us to use had long lines, poor connections, limited times available for our use – and then only after the cease-fire was initiated.
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- So as a result my wife and I wrote “hard copy” letters to each other every day – we didn’t have email back then – which took about two weeks for delivery back and forth, so we rarely had any up to date information from each other.
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- David had this play tent set up in the family room which he liked to play inside – and treated it as his own secret fort which was off limits to everyone else.
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- A playmate and David enjoy a snack of crackers and drinks while sharing what must have been a secret joke between the two of them.
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- Another day of play, snacks and private sneaky jokes between David and his friend – which was especially good to keep David occupied while I was deployed.
