Will Webb and I have exchanged thousands of words and dozens of photos over the past year, we've cooperated in a news venture that brought first-hand reports from the Iraq War to thousands of Web readers, and we've shared - just between us - some personal thoughts, feelings and prayers, on where we are and what we're doing in this world ...
And we never actually met ...
At least until this week, when Sgt. Will Webb, 56th Brigade Combat Team, Texas National Guard, freshly-returned from a tour of duty in the Iraq War, paid a visit to the Tall City.
Will and his actual family (his wife and baby daughter) were greeted by members of his virtual family - Eric Siegmund of the Fire Ant Gazette, and myself, and our wives - at Venezia's for lunch.
It was a wonderful time ... good food, great company, making faces at the baby, some discussion of the past, and plenty of talk about the future ...
That last is especially important to me ...
That's because I believe that nothing befits a war better than its ending ... and we must all live and work for that day when our men and women can come home, with heads held high, hang their swords over the mantelpiece, and give some thought to the future ... a future they have helped create and maintain ...
Virtual Will and Virtual Jeff were good correspondents ... I'm hoping that Actual Will and Actual Jeff can be good friends ...
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