Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

I asked him if he would, without making a big deal about it, get me the names of some of the ones that may not get much mail.

We're happy that they've all returned with no serious injuries. These soldiers are going to have up to 90 days to be left alone with their families. Then it's back to one weekend a month, two weekends in the summer.

[Burns says he has been particularly inspired by accounts of Japanese-American soldiers who left internment camps to serve in combat in Europe.] These men were only given one opportunity as volunteers and that was to go straight to combat, ... They went straight to the battlefield. It was very tragic. But they were some of the most amazing heroes of the war. And that's the kind of thing I didn't know when I started working on this project and the kind of thing I love to talk about. It gets me excited. And it's more fun when you can talk about it with people in a forum.

Had we not had these soldiers and airmen deployed and they participated in the relief efforts of a storm of this magnitude, we would have had to have outside help anyway. I don't believe there is a state in this county that could have conducted hurricane relief efforts on this scale to adequately respond without help from other states.

They (Soldiers) just had an increase so the forms changed and the Soldiers have to update their forms.