Santa Claus is not in Iraq

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Sgt. Lucas Green from the Crump community in Cape Girardeau County and Spc. Brad Isaac from Bell City in Scott County are deployed with the Missouri Army National Guard's 203rd Engineer Combat Battalion near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. They met while stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., before they were deployed last May and are scheduled to return home next May. Together, they wrote the following reflection on spending Christmas in a faraway, war-torn country.

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