"They have a sense of humor," he said.

[donsu]

N.C. National Guard members tell of heat, danger in Iraq

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/6664132.htm

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Franklin's death marks the first time in more than three decades that the North Carolina National Guard has lost a soldier to hostile fire, guard officials said. More than 1,300 North Carolina Guardsmen are on active duty, many in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A tennis court near the compound has been converted to a holding pen with razor wire looping across the top of the chain-link fence. Overhead lights that once allowed tennis to be played at night keep the area lit.

"Tonight I have three thieves and two terrorists," Bishop wrote in one letter to his wife. "I'm looking at the moon. Everyone is asleep."

Sometimes Iraqi children sneak into the holding area, Bishop told his wife. She sent lollipops, Cracker Jacks and Oreo cookies for him to share with them along with Hot Wheel cars, magic markers and drawing books.

"One boy patted me on the back," he wrote. He thought nothing of it. Later he discovered a picture of Saddam Hussein taped to his back. "They have a sense of humor," he said.
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it is so sad that this soldier doesn't get it. my dear man, it is not "a sense of humor".

[pasadenaboy]

1. I think its kinda sweet

at least he understood the Iraqis were people, unlike the neo-cons running policy.

[newyawker99]

3. Hi pasadenaboy!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[izzie]

2. What in Gods name is the service telling their young men?

I recall a friend I knew who was very well educated. Harvard. He said when he went into WW2 he was taken with others to a POW camp in the South and said this is what you will be fighting. He said they were all in real terror as it was the African part of Hitler army. He said they were well educated, big, fair and loyal to Hitler. He said they knew they would have to fight like hell to win. He said by the time they found out the whole army was not like this they were fighting even harder because the army of Germany turned into war hardern men and teen-age zealots. Not once did I hear him say that Am was so great they would give him flowers.Maybe these young men should read some thing about Num. Another war we would have won????? Or so say the GOP as if this was not their own country they were foghting for and would do it any way they could to win. No one seem to ever learn a thing.