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Fear and Courage

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jun 9, 2009 in The Soap Box

As I am prone to do now and again, I’m going to break character here and post something serious.
I’m going to tell you something incredibly embarrassing in order to make a point.  And I hope the point leaves you so affected, you’ll forget all about the incident that prompted this little lesson.
We have a rat. [...]

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One Story

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jan 7, 2009 in Uncategorized

His nickname was Flash, because the handful of southern-American soldiers that came to work with him felt more comfortable with a nickname than his real name.  His Iraqi name.
He translated for these four men in a remote post southeast of Baghdad.  He befriended them.  He joined in video phone conversations with families  on occasion, laughed [...]

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A More Personal Life

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jan 3, 2009 in Uncategorized

This morning, I cried as I read the sad story of an army doctor who died in a mortar attack in Mosul on Christmas morning.  His wife had spoken to him every day during his deployment, and when he didn’t call she thought he must be working on a soldier, trying to patch him up  [...]

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