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. [...]
Tags: courage, fear, freedom, iraq, soldiers, war
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jan 7, 2009 in
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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 [...]
Tags: army, execution, iraq, violence, war
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jan 3, 2009 in
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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 [...]
Tags: family, military, prolife, stories, war