This was forwarded to me today.
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>From: Sheila Paquette [mailto:xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 9:15 AM
>To: Sandy Post
>Subject: Chakras Army Nurse
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>I want to share an email Chakras Spa in Greensboro, NC received from an
>Army nurse stationed in Iraq...
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>"I am a 43 year old Army nurse stationed in Iraq in a Combat Support
>Hospital for the past 9 1/2 months. I will be home on R&R and would love
>a "pamper me day." I would like some help designing a full day package
>for Oct 28 or Oct 29. I am in a high profile combat zone and have been
>under a great deal of stress for quite a while. I only have a short time
>at home before returning for 3 1/2 more months and really want to feel
>like a "regular girl" again.
Read what the nurse had to say when she turned up for her spa treatment after the fold.
> I've been wearing combat boots at least 16
>hours a day for 10 months. It has been a very difficult week with many
>deaths (I'm a nurse in ICU and the ER) and yet another one just 30
>minutes ago. Also, do you happen to offer any "I've been stuck in the
>desert with people shooting at me Military discounts? :-) Thank you for
>your help".
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>October 28, 2004
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>When our Army nurse entered Chakras, she looked totally exhausted. Kim
>greeted her with a large welcome home hug. She said that her skin
>needed a deep cleansing due to the dirty water the soldiers have to
>bathe in. All of her therapists for her "pamper me day" were instructed
>not to discuss her experience in Iraq so that she could truly escape.
>Her first therapist exited her treatment room with eyes as large as
>saucers. As it turns out, she wants to tell what is really happening in
>Iraq. "Americans are not being told the truth" she said. Our troops
>watch CNN of Europe and CNN that is seen in the United States. After
>spending a 16 hour day in ICU, holding the hands of dying young men,
>holding their hands upon waking up from surgery to find out they have
>lost a limb, she watches what the world is being told. It is hard to
>zip up your EIGHTH body bag of the day, to observe the media being
>instructed to say we had no causalities that day. The "missing
>explosives" took weeks to be revealed, hoping the elections would take
>place before that news was released. She said our regime placed the
>Iraqi army to guard the explosives...to be discovered by our troops they
>had "disappeared". She said some of them were even stored in trunks of
>cars that were literally driven off. The soldiers are having to make a
>decision of whether they want to be shot in the chest or back, due to
>insufficient supplies of hardware. She also said that the current state
>of affairs is in total disorganization. It is chaotic, with no end in
>sight. The majority of the soldiers will not be able to vote due to the
>absentee ballots "just happened" not to get there in time... She pleaded
>for us to elect a new commander in chief this election. It is not going
>to be a quick fix, but the Bush administration has it spiraling out of
>control.
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>With all of the media and election hype, it is great to be able to
>access information from someone who is actually in Iraq. Kim is going to
>contact her to see if she would like to write us an email that we could
>pass on to all of you. I certainly don't want to put her at risk in any
>way, but our world is at stake.
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>In Peace and Love,
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>Sheila Paquette
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