In 2007, Halloween was simply another holiday that I had to spend away from my family. I had missed Halloween 2006 due to a last minute Advanced Trauma Life Support Class prior to deployment, and was bound to miss subsequent Halloweens due to conferences, Temporary Duty (military speak for "business trip"), and the like.
This Halloween I was home, having just returned from a Family Medicine conference in Pennsylvania. I accompanied my Harry Potter while wearing my Flash costume, and my Link (from "Legend of Zelda") took off with some tweens from down the street. After a walk of the neighborhood, one beer, and countless pieces of candy later, we're done for another year.
I would like to thank all of those soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, civilians, coalition members, and local national security forces for doing the good work that allows me to spend this time with my family. I know my time to the same will come again quite soon, but for now, I just want to say thank-you for your service adn your sacrifice.
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