Alaska, APO, and deployed — updated
This post was made on September 24, but it was misplaced somehow. So here it is where you can find it, even though it is out of order now.
So, I started this blog when I went to basic training. I wrote letters to Ben, and he posted them here. It was really helpful for me, because everybody who wanted to hear how I was doing could just read the blog instead of me having to write a million detailed letters. You don’t have THAT much time at BCT!
So then I graduated BCT, and went to Texas for AIT and I neglected my blog. Suffice it to say, AIT was NOT fun. I was VERY relieved when Ben arrived in the beginning of June, and even more relieved when I graduated in the end of July.
Now I am in Fairbanks, AK. For one more day. I ship out tomorrow, 25 Sept 2008, for Kuwait. We will spend about 2 weeks there, then go on to Iraq. I plan on keeping up with my blog while I’m there. Hopefully I can make at least a short entry every day.
I SHOULD be available via e-mail (sarahtyhurst@gmail.com) and even video chat on AIM (sdtyhurst), but if I’m not, you can send letters or packages to
PFC Tyhurst, Sarah
BSMC, 25 BSB
1/25 SBCT
APO AE 09336
If you are one of my internet friends or someone I haven’t talked to in a long time, PLEASE make sure I know who you are if you are sending me a care package! It might be a good idea to send a letter along with it. Just to be safe 
Remember, you can just read my blog and hear all about me, so do the same for me and send me a letter! An e-mail, a quick note, even just a little comment on my blog.
Thanks so much for all the support and prayers you give me. I’m so proud to be able to do this, to make a difference and be a part of something so much bigger than myself.
I look forward to hearing from you!
<3 Sarah
October 22, 2008 at 11:42 am
Sarah,
I am so in awe of everything you are doing. I have never even been camping, and have no desire to go. And here you are living in a tent for how long?
I watched a TV show on the airplane coming to CA to help Marianne. It was some kind of toughest jobs survivor type show. The people were having to do tremendously hard things. I thought of how I have never done any dangerous, or extremely hard for me. Some regular trials are tough, but nothing llike the people on the show or you. I don’t know that I will have to ever do anything dangerous or really brave, but I wonder what it would have been like.
You are really something. Thanks for all you and Ben are doing. I know it’s hard for the families left behind, too. Their sacrifice, though different, is nonetheless important and appreciated.
Take care. I look forward to more on the blog.
Love, Wanda