Got off the phone earlier today with my State Rep. and a great American, Col. Danny Bubp, who has received orders to deploy to Iraq. Bubp, a Marine reservist, will be pulling a 6 to 8 month duty in Iraq. We talked about what lies ahead for him and for Ohio, and that he is not done yet. He is even as we speak filing his papers to run for re-election. While he is gone, his staff will be keeping constituents apprised of state matters through the weekly columns Col. Bubp was writing himself, but now his staff will be writing them as reports from the office. Col. Bubp has also been asked by news organizations to file monthly reports on what he is seeing in Iraq and his experiences there.
Col. Bubp and I talked about his duty in Iraq, and I will not divulge specifics of what he will be doing and exactly where, but his duty is not exactly going to be "cushy" by any stretch. I do not want to give specifics because I firmly remember my WWII history, "loose lips sink ships."
Col. Bubp will be leaving in the next week or so for training in California, and then after that he ships off to Iraq for his tour of duty, sometime after the Christmas Holiday. Col. Bubp has said that if his schedule permits when he comes home on leave for the Holidays, he might be able to have a sitdown with Matt and I. We would be honored.
Col. Bubp will be speaking at three local area schools in the district tomorrow, including Western Brown in Brown County and Felicity in Clermont County. Unfortunately, he will be training in California for the Support the Troops rally he was supposed to attend Nov. 17 at Peace Lutheran Church in Arnheim.
Col. Bubp has vowed to stay apprised of things back home as he is in harm's way, and he asks the voters of the district to remember him in prayer and to not forget him. Like MacArthur, or even the Terminator, he will be back.
God bless Col. Bubp, God bless the soldiers, God bless America.
