PRAYER REQUEST AND A PROPHETIC DREAM

My dear Dove brothers and sisters.   Please pray for one of my sons.  His Army unit (101st Airborne, Air Assault Div.) deployed today for Iraq.  He will be in Mosul, norhtern Iraq.  The Unit flag was packed yesterday (Friday) and sent ahead of them.  And the soldiers said, "We are soldiers; we follow the colors".  And pray for me, a mother, who must rely very heavily upon the Lord's providence and mercy.
Now, about a dream that  this son had last January, BEFORE he knew that he would be going to Iraq, although he was in the process of signing up for the military.... In the dream, he found himself steam-cleaning the carpeted stairs in Saddam Hussein's palace (lol - at the time he was working for Stanley Steemer carpet-cleaning company).   Then he saw Saddam Hussein himself, walking up the stairs, dressed as Rodney Dangerfield (lol again), saying that "he was going to retire"...meaning go to bed.  Then my son went up to the top of the stairs and around to the right in a hallway, and became aware that in a room down the hallway was a nature-preserve room where Saddam kept some big birds.   All of a sudden, two huge owl-like birds came flying out of the room,,,huge, with 8-foot wing spans.  One was white and the other was a darker brown.   They flew down the stairs and out the front door, and my son followed them out.   He said there was a great deal of fear and awe in the dream,,,,and he doesn't usually dream a great deal.
      At the time, I told him my interpretation of the dream.  That he would indeed be going to Iraq (which he was emotionally read to accept even then)......and that he would be near a palace of Saddam Hussein.  (indeed there is a huge palace of his in Mosul), and that he would be in Iraq at the time of the "rapture", signified by the large birds (owls - they are RAPTORS) obtaining their freedom from confinement.   That he followed the birds out the front door means that he would heed the call of the Lord to "come up hither", so up he would go with the birds.........and that this would also happen around the time that Saddam Hussein (who gets no respect), would be "retiring", or a new regime taking over..............
      Doves, what I find interesting is that my son is indeed himself a harbinger of a prophet event in Iraq.   First of all, in a city that contains one of Saddam's palaces, and secondly, and I didn't know this at the time,,,,is that Saddam and his sons were into keeping nature preserves, and in fact his sons had exotic birds in one bird sanctuary.
      Pray that we all hear His voice soon, and the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of the archangel....
      Your sister in Christ          Arlene