My last post about Iraq might have given the wrong impression about the troops over there. Just because things are fraying at the edges doesn’t mean everybody’s cracked. I’ve been reading A View from a Broad to get a soldier’s perspective. Most eye-opening comment: about the poor XXXXXXXXX troops:
If you want to take some of the time and attention you’ve been giving to me, you might want to think about the XXXXXXXXX soldiers who provided help, support, and first aid to our lost soldier. They have been stranded here without pay for six months, and lack even phone cards to call home to rectify the situation. They helped a dying man at the scene of the accident, and now it would be nice to return the favor. Some of the toiletries various people have been nice enough to send will be going to them.
Edited: The original poster has just deleted the nationalities of the soldiers involved for “security reasons. I’ll do the same, although deleting stuff from the web is a pointless exercise.