Notes in the Key of Life has a moving email from her younger brother David.

Finished training another class of Iraqi cadets on the range today. The majority of them come to me with no shooting skills, no concept of the fundamentals of marksmanship and no experience with a pistol. Most of them understand the controls of the AK-47 assault rifle but not how to hit anyone that isnt standing right in front of them.

“They look at me with suspicion in thier eyes on the first day we meet. I have them for a week. Paul and Jeff, two Canadian Mounties, Ricky Don, a big Louisiana boy, that goes by the nickname ‘Redneck’ and I, begin to teach them the skills that will hopefully save their lives.

” They come to us with courage. All of them have risked death to come here and by taking this job having taken the most dangerous policing job in the world.