Memorabilia from Iraq: Deployment 2004-2005
These are newspaper clippings and Memorial cards from my unit, the fighting 69, in Iraq. Some of this stuff is sad and close to my heart. (more…)
Letters from Iraq
This is a little bit of an experiment. I am tinkering around with putting letters that I have from when I fought in the Iraq war up on my blog. They are pretty interesting. At the time of writing these letters the last thing on my mind was whether someone other than my wife would be reading these letters so they can be a little sloppy. I think I might start by putting some original letters up and some translated letters up that I have modified. But I promise I will keep the original integrity of the letters intact if I do modify the letters. Either way I will write which ones are original and which are modified. (more…)
Iraq Film “There and Back”
This is a brief movie my wife created to help show my students my experience in Iraq when I did a Veterans Day presentation.
Iraq “An average day”
This is me in the driver’s seat of a Hum-v in combat. You can see that I am wearing a neck protector, scissors, medical pocket, and protective eyewear.
In the truck we were suppose to wear our helmets but usually we took them off if the truck was stopped. (more…)
Writing excerise: The Frozen Attack
This is a writing exercise that I did today. I just wrote a random scene to get words on the page.
Mike kicked back and flung himself against the wall. With a sudden crash his lungs collapsed momentarily from the force of the impact. He wasn’t expecting that, although he had one thing going for him, his plan to remove himself from view of the window had worked flawlessly. Well, maybe not flawlessly, he was now pinned up against a cold stone wall gasping for air. (more…)
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