Michael Abken:  

17 June 2008 I just did a long little update on here like just last week, I guess it didn't save. Ahh heck. Okay, so since April 07. I was transferred to Fort Polk, LA just in time to deploy. That was back in Oct 07, I have been over here for my second tour since November. It is a 15 month rotation. I was able to go home and spend both my 7th anniversary and Zowies 1st birthday with the family. It was hard leaving them to come back over here, but hey it is my job and what I signed up to do. I looked at one of the topics on the "story wizard" and felt compelled to write about it. "How do you hope old firends remember you?" Hmmm interesting, I am pretty sure I know how I am remembered. But your guess is as good as mine, I can only hope that I am remembered as a good friend. Back then I was a completely different person from what I am today. I am not proud of who I was, but at the same time do I regret everything that has happened between then and now. No not everything, yes I could have been a better student ah well, yes I could have been alot of things but I wasn't so that is water under the bridge. Some of my dearest friends have seen me since then, as I have changed and matured to the man I am today. Friends that are more like family, people that when I used to go home didn't look at me for anything else than a friend in need. I am grateful for them, they may not be my birth family but they are my famil...Expand for more