I keep mentioning the blog MY WAR:
"Last night in the middle of the night (03:30am) I woke up to a very loud explosion. At first thought it was another bad dream, but my roommate also heard it and woke up, and said "Hey, did you hear that?!" Yea, I told him. We stayed up for a couple minutes silently after that, wondering what the hell was that, and then we both went back to sleep. We later found out that it was an IED. This morning we all went to breakfast and when we returned I dropped a dose of a malaria pill (today's malaria Monday) and went to my room. Shortly after that my squad leader banged on my door and said that our PLT just got placed on QRF (Quick Reaction Force) and to stand by and be ready to go at any minute, today might be another 24th of June. The main gate to the airfield to our FOB just got hit by a Vehicle Borne IED (car bomb) and there's mass casualties. We later found out and there wasn't as many casualties as was first originally thought, several dead, and a handful wounded. The vehicle borne IED was a toyota pickup with a female driver. The airfield here also got mortared several times today."
It doesn't get any realer than that folks. It doesn't get any more timely either. If you aren't making MY WAR a daily stop, you should.
Posted by Tammi at July 26, 2004 01:26 PMHey...made it over this way. Glad to find your new address. I loved the Gretchen Wilson post: Here for the party! Not only do I love that song, but the way you put it together, reminded me a bit of hee-haw. You know the part where you here them playing music and then they cut to a scene where some of the cast tells a joke? then, back to the music.
Ok..maybe I'm dating myself, but I swear I was only 8 when I saw it. LOL
Posted by: kat-missouri at July 26, 2004 07:36 PM