{"id":39,"date":"2011-04-28T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2022-05-27T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:21:11","slug":"i-read-the-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/i-read-the-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I Read the News Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"I%20Read%20the%20News%20Today\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>This morning, after wiping the sleep from my eyes and downing a cup of coffee, I read the news. Nothing exciting to report: Obama this, Trump that, people killed in Afghanistan, U.S. debt high, etc. A thought quickly crossed my mind, however, that I know people in Afghanistan. I hope I didn&#8217;t know one of those killed. In fact, I never know anyone killed. My former occupation as a meteorologist was rarely in harm&#8217;s way. Surely no one who I knew in that line of work and was still in the military, deployed to Afghanistan would be hurt or&#8211;worse&#8211;killed.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong. Captain Nathan J. Nylander, age 35, was one of those people killed. I&#8217;ve known Nate since 1998, when he was a Senior Airman at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona and I was his trainer. I was proud of the moment he pinned on officer bars and I was excited to be stationed with him again at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. That was the last time I saw him.<\/p>\n<p>However, thanks to the social networking world we live in, I was always &#8220;around&#8221; him. I read his Facebook page, looked at the pictures he posted of his time in Afghanistan, interacted on occasion. It was just two days ago, in fact, that I laughed at his head, which he had shaved as a show of support for a fellow Airman who was just diagnosed with cancer. Nate was always present in my little social networking world.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t be anymore.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s anger in me, for sure. 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