I spoke to Alex today and they have gone to alert status.

Yes, this will be the last conversation I will have with my son for awhile. Many of you have sent comments to www.bluestardad.wordpress.com which I do not use any longer. I have been trying to respond to each one of you via email. I am now going to respond via the blog because it has been too time consuming. Don't get me wrong here, I want to reach out to each and everyone of you it's just that I am so concerned of not getting back to one of you because of time constraints.

So with that said, Vickie, Alex knows Tanner and will be making contact with him. They are not in the same squad but he will make that contact with him. I will continue to email you as we have made some great connections and were one of the first persons that have contacted me.

Don, I will keep Andy in my prayers and Alex will seek him out to get to know him. I will pass information when I can. My prayers will be for him as well.

Anne, I lost two cousins during that time (November 8th) with the 173rd on a combat jump. My true purpose for this blog is exactly to portray the true life of an American soldier in combat. Not for profit.

To everyone that reads this blog, I am all about the troop and not the commercial value. I want my son to come home as well as your son's and daughter's whole and healthy.

May God Bless Them All,

A Fathers Love,

Larry Arnone
AKA Bluestardad
San Francisco, Ca