Philip Allan Dodson Jr.

Hey phil! Its matt, its been some years since i wrote you. Last time i wrote you i was leaving for iraq. that has came and gone. still seems like yesterday though. i had you and your family on my heart today. I miss you! I wish i could here a joke or your laugh one more time haha. Ill see you on the high ground. love you cuz.

Another year has passed making it nine years since I got the news that you had left us forever. Our 28 anniversary is coming up on the 16th of January. We have three grandchildren. I wish you could see them and play with them. You would be so proud. The little one is two and he is so much like you it isn't funny. I laugh at him so much sometimes it hurts. I miss you so very much. We lost your cousin Bette this past year. So many gone. I will hold you in my heart forever. My hero my love. Missy

You are truly missed as co worker, friend and soldier.

8 years ago Monday december 2 2005 you were taken from us. Never in my wildest imagination did I think I was saying good bye for the last time when you left in september after your R and R to go back to Iraq. There have been some good times but also very hard times in the last 8 years. I wish with all my heart I could hold you and tell you I love you if it were just one time because I know if you could you would not come back. I love you and miss you so much. My heart is broke into so many...

Happy Birthday july 30 you would have been fifty. Love you so much and I miss
You more
Than words can say

I was saying goodbye to you seven years ago this week and it still seems like it was yesterday. miss you so much.

Thursday will be seven years since I have heard your voice. Sometimes it still seems unreal. I love and miss you more than ever.

We still thank you today for your military service. You have not been forgotten.