Sunday Dalliance

November 29th, 2009

Toby Keity
“Whiskey Girl”

Don’t my baby look good in them blue jeans
Tight on the top with a belly button ring
A little tattoo somewhere in between she only shows to me
Yeah we’re goin’ out dancin’ she’s ready tonight
So damn good lookin’ boys it ain’t even right
And when the bartender says for the lady
What’s it gonna be I [...]

COP Keating Attack

November 27th, 2009

November 27, 2009
Interviewing the Soldiers of the COP Keating attack was to be my hardest mission. It was a privilege to talk to these battled tested Soldiers.
I can’t talk about what they said or what I learned from these interviews, except that eight of their comrades died in this battle. I can however present [...]

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for – annually, not oftener – if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the [...]

A chance to escape!

November 25th, 2009

November 25, 2009
After being in back in Bagram for a couple days, I was asked to go back out to the field to FOB Bostick to interview Soldiers from COP Keating. This, after being told I was not going outside of the “wire” again.
I wanted to go. Another obligation was preventing me from going. I [...]

“A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.” ~ Proverb quote.
November 23, 2009
Yeah, I have a Blank attitude problem!
I was reminded of something today that I wanted to forget. So I could really use a Blank drink. Not that I’m alcoholic, seeing how I have been living under Blank General Order 1 since May [...]