desert diary.com

This blog written by Major Robert M. Hart was featured recently in our local newspaper. Major Hart is a U.S. Army Reservist currently serving in Iraq. When he returns home, he will resume his job as a high school teacher and coach right up the road from here. He teaches at West Nassau High School in Callahan, Florida. You can read about him at desertdiary.com.

Read his desert diary at this link and if you scroll down the page, you will find links to Big Al's Excellent Adventure.

"Big Al" began his adventure when he was chosen from a group of his brothers from their nest at the University of Florida's Reitz Union bookstore. He was selected on a game day weekend by two young boys (Maj. Hart's nephews Jacob and Alex). His first stop was to the boy's classrooms at Jacksonville Beach Elementary School. Then he was airlifted along with a package of carefully
packaged chewy cake to Camp Victory, Iraq. The chewy cake was hard as a rock when it arrived but Big Al was just fine.