The other day, I wrote him and asked 'How's the air conditioning? Are you keeping cool when you're off duty?' and he said 'Not so good'.

We feel that it's an important duty.

Now, he asks for school supplies, soccer balls and Beanie babies to hand out to the Iraqi children. He is always putting the soldiers or the Iraqi children ahead of himself.

The next time I contacted him I asked him how the fan arrived and was it working, and he told me the fan had arrived in good shape and, yes, it was working.

It used to be 80 percent of the industry had a 14 hour duty day. But now most of that is gone. It's just gone.

I got another letter stating he still has to call the number if he's called for jury duty that day.