We received the following email. After reading it, my heart went out to this soldier. Imagine, doing 2 tours in Iraq, 1 tour in Afghanistan then coming home and being accepted to Officers School. The last 6 days of school this soldier had a 9 mile training mission carrying an 80lb. backpack. He felt a pain in his chest, went to the doc and his collar bone was broken. Dug into it further and it turned out to be cancer and it was eating his bones. Now he is going thru Chemo. Tomorrow I am taking him, his wife and 2 boys fishing. We got the Elephant Butte Inn to donate a beautiful room at their hotel and others are coming forth to help us make this mans life a little better..

God Bless Our Military.    

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Soldier: Greetings, I am inquiring about a fishing trip for myself and my family. I have a 4 and a 7 year old boys, loving the outdoors and always wanting to go fishing.  I am a sergeant first class active duty in the army stationed here at fort bliss. Tragedy has recently struck our family and this seems to be a good way to get everyone's minds off of what's going on and allow my boys and wife to feel a little more normal. I was recently diagnosed with stage 2 large B cell non hodgkins lymphoma cancer while attending warrant officer school. Everything stopped and our pending vacation to Wyoming and move to Oklahoma was put on immediate hold. I am currently on my 2nd round of chemotherapy and receive treatment every 3 weeks. Just looking when I'm feeling up to getting them out there a way to try and feel a little normal again before I get to sick from treatment or the cancer keeps spreading. So i guess the questions would be, when is available? What's the cost? And is all we have to do is show up and have some fun?