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Lost in the uniform tournament, reunion fundraising, and draft-party planning, is the fifth birthday of our website. It was five years ago that Cliburn suggested a website, and Trovillo found Weebly.com to design and host it. The first site was embarrassingly low-tech. In hindsight, it looked more like a Geo-Cities page than the site we use now. After five years, we've been featured on USA Today's The Big Lead and Uni-Watch. We've become part of Fox Sports' Yardbarker network of sports blogs, and been the topic of much discussion on Reddit. At least four fantasy football leagues have tried to model their own league websites on ours. And we've chronicled the oral history of both our year in Iraq and each subsequent season. I wouldn't put this much time and effort into the website if I didn't truly care for the guys involved. So, thanks for making this league awesome, and here's to another five years of okiraqi.org.