I wish I had some better news to bring blog world, but Nathan was shot in Iraq about two weeks ago.  He is okay now and probably being discharged from Walter Reed Hospital today.  Here is the story as I know it:

His group was walking down a town street.  I don't know which town.  As they were walking past one of the buildings, gunfire came from it hitting one guy in the leg and grazing the neck of another.  This building was in a courtyard and kind of surrounded by walls.  The rest of the team positioned themselved around the house.  There was one guy right next to the door and Super Sarge, aka Sgt. Nathan Greene, was around the corner on the far wall.  The commander gave an order to enter the building.  The guy next to the door froze.  So Super Sarge comes around the corner and charges through the door.  As soon as he enters, he got hit with one bullet through his lower left chest and exited out his back below his shoulder blade and a couple inches from his spine.  Despite his condition, he knew he couldn't stay there.  So he got the hell out of there and out of the courtyard where the Medics were.  I don't think the bullet went through his lung, but it collapsed it.  The Medics had to put a tube in his chest to expand his lung and drain fluids with no anesthesia.  It took 5 guys to hold him down as the Medics did their stuff.  It shakes me up thinking about it.  There was a photographer taking his picture after they got him to a medical facility and his pictures were in the Pittsburgh papers and the USA Today.  If I get permission, I would like to put up a few of them.  So they first sent him to a hospital in Germany for a couple of days and he has been at Walter Reed for a little over a week. 

Melissa and I went to see him on Friday.  Doctors had removed the tube in his chest because he was doing better.  When we got there, he was in a lot of pain because the doctors were finishing putting the tube back in. 

Sorry, but it looks like I am being called off to another chore that absolutely can't wait.  Once again, sorry Nathan.