Monthly Archives: March 2012

First Fight

Posted on March 29, 2012 by warmemoir

The first real action Three/Five saw was south of Ad Diwaniyah, around March 23rd or 24th.  I wish I could remember how far south, but things were blurry and both time and distance were distorted. I had never been in … Continue reading →

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What War Is

Posted on March 23, 2012 by warmemoir

    Your first war is filled with things you’ve never done, never seen, never heard, never smelled. It’s a different continent, and everyone who goes there feels like the first white man in the Congo.  It’s the world after you … Continue reading →

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Crossing

Posted on March 18, 2012 by warmemoir

Crossing into Iraq in that never-ending convoy felt like being caught in a river’s current, we flowed across the border in an inevitable stream of war machines. In the afternoon light of the desert we poured through breaches in the … Continue reading →

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Intro to the war

Posted on March 14, 2012 by warmemoir

We all fear the unknown, and mankind’s fear of death comes from having never experienced it.  Ask the few people who have been certain, utterly certain, they were about to die, and I think you’ll find men and women who … Continue reading →

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An Iraq War Memoir

Posted on March 14, 2012 by warmemoir

This is a project I’ve been working on for the last few months, and which I hope to complete this year. I was a US Marine in 2003 and fought in the invasion of Iraq as an interrogator/counterintelligence specialist, which … Continue reading →

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