OK. As small as this fish looks it was a big thing to catch. For a few moments today I wasn't in Iraq. I was on the bank of a pond catching a fish. I might as well have been standing next to my dad as a kid with the way it felt. For that moment in time I may have been with my kids at a pond at home. My wife may have been sitting in a chair a few feet away reading a book. I was so close to home I could feel it with each and every tug on the end of the line. I got a fish that was a whopping 8 inches long, it might as wel have been a whale for as good as it made me feel. I may be thousands of miles from home, but in those few moments... I WAS home.
