Free Beers

Last night the Super Bowl was played in the US - Boston must be going crazy after the Red Sox and now the Patriots are champions.

In conjunction with the Super Bowl and in support of the troops, Anhauser-Busch donated real beer to the soldiers here in Iraq. Good propoganda for them - a chance to feel a little more like home for us.

Each soldier received two beers with dinner. Of course, Mother Army took as much fun out of as she could - the beers could only be consumed during dinner, no one could leave with a beer, no one could give their beers away to someone else...I mean they came just short of making all of us stand at attention to drink them.

However - if you were under 21 you could drink...about time too! Eighteen years old and old enough to lay your life on the line every day equals you are old enough to have two beers in my opinion.

The chow hall was full of the sounds of soldiers laughing and bottles clinking. I drank my two cold Budweisers with my meal of turkey and stuffing and enjoyed every minute of it. I enjoyed looking around and watching the troops who give so much every day enjoying their beers with their comrades. It was cool.

It was a great idea. It was great for the upper levels of the chain of command to approve it. They should do it for the holiday meals and the Fourth of July too! However, until they do I can say I was there for the one time we all drank on the front lines.