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Byline: Kevin Cary
Sep. 22--PUMPKIN CENTER -- Sorry I can't be there during this most memorable time in your life. Love, Dad.
Robbie Robbins ended an e-mail to his son, Jarrett, that way last month, two weeks before Jarrett's senior football season at North Lincoln High School began. Robbie Robbins is a lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserve in An Numaniyah, Iraq. He has been helping train and supply Iraqi police since June.
Robbins can't be there as Jarrett plays. He can't be in the stands as his daughter, Charli, a junior, cheers.
But tonight, when North Lincoln faces rival East Lincoln, Robbins again will watch his son play and his daughter cheer, from Iraq.
Lincoln County Schools technicians have set up a live Internet webcast so that Robbins can watch all of North Lincoln's home games on a private Web page. The streaming video includes the audio…