An ironic Thanksgiving thought...

My friend recently had his wife down to Virginia for the Marine Corps Ball and today he informed me that she was "deathly ill". While this was a bit of an exaggeration, apparently living with 1,000 people in close quarters has bred some pretty nasty bugs...bugs that we seem to be immune to. Thinking about this reminds me of something I learned in history class, how the Native American population was decimated by diseases that the settlers brought with them. I hope everyone back home is pounding vitamins in preparation for my return...