http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031115/ap_on_re_us/iraq_guards_activated&cid=519&ncid=1473DENVER - When National Guardsman John Schreiber learned he could be sent to Iraq before Christmas, his 7-year-old son told him, "Dad, you're going to die."
"I had to assure him that just because I'm going someplace doesn't mean something bad is going to happen," said Schreiber, a Colorado Springs firefighter and a staff sergeant in a National Guard firefighting company.
Schreiber, 34, was among about 85 Guard members in Colorado told to report to Fort Carson near Colorado Springs next month to prepare for 18-month deployments in Iraq. They haven't been told when they will ship out.
The orders prompted the Schreiber family to change their Thanksgiving plans. Instead of staying home, they'll travel to Phoenix to visit Schreiber's brothers, his ailing father and his mother.
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