I said in an earlier post, that I would be discussing another sacred place for me at FT. Indiantown Gap. This is the 2nd Brigade Combat Team Memorial. It was constructed in Ramadi, Iraq during my first deployment to Iraq. It was disassembled and reconstructed in front of divison headquarters at the Gap.

Check out the website at http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=12543


Two of the men on that plaque are SGT Joseph Proctor and Captain Brian Letendre. They were members of the Military Transition Team I was a part of in Ramadi. Proctor and I were partners on combat missions together, and had spent 12 days together on the position where he died just days before. Here's a broad description of what Proctor did on May 3 2006. http://www.defenselink.mil/heroes/profiles/proctorJ.html




To the right you'll see the names engraved on the memorial Proctor is one up from the bottom right. The 2-28th Brigadge Combat team took a pretty good beating in Ramadi, but we also helped to tranform what Time Magazine called "Iraq's Toughest City" and "The Most Dangerous Place" during our tour, into the center of the "Anbar Awakening". Journalist Michael Otten has a pretty good description of the changes we were able to help with. More on Proctor on May 3.
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001514.html