On The Ground
 ”The Days of My Life.” A Baghdad schoolgirl talks about a class party, her report card, the car that exploded on her street, her sadness after the widow who used to clean her classroom was killed.
Days’ mom also blogs about the odds and ends of her days. Compellingly, chillingly.Â
A City Called Hell, Where the Date Palms Grow, marks the anniversary of war wondering whether he should celebrate or mourn, and misses home.
Sgt. Hook has someone he’d like you to meet.
Teflon Don remembers what it was like being new.
Badger’s Forward on “counter-insurgency today,” an uneasy alliance in Anbar.
One embittered Iraqi blogger’s peace plan.
From the lofty heights of leadership, an on-the-ground general addresses the people.
Neurotic Iraqi Wife declares proudly, “I AM A COLLABORATOR.”
Hala, “Madly in Love With Iraq,” encounters another exile from “one of them countries, the ill-fated ones.”
Iraqi Konfused Kid, a refugee in Jordan, casts a harsh eye on pop culture. Check right column, where IKK is monitoring “God’s Dead Pool.”Â
IKK declares this “COOL” and though it hasn’t been updated in a while, Syria Exposed offers an intense view from the ground.Â
Speaking of pop culture, MNF-I on You Tube. Check “Hunt for Insurgents.”
“If we lose at soccer to the Iraqis, we know who to blame.”
On the ground in the ‘Stan, Afghan Warrior is a terp with the Americans. Here’s Waheed on the Afghan Army and strange American holidays.
Miserable Donuts in Bagram looks at the news, gulps and wonders if he’s headed to another B-place. That’d be another donut. Scroll down for the latest Afghan photo shoot.
A Soldier’s Angel heads down to the local VA. Suggests you try same.
What was happening on the ground four years ago today.
Topics: ground views
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:05 am Comments (3) on Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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April 10th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Web Reconnaissance for 04/10/2007
A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:26 am
I read about that troop who got the DSC in Army Times. However, IIRC, that was the same issue that they devoted the cover to the gang of thieves from Ft. Lewis who robbed a bank and their leader who was trying to claim it was an anti-war statement. Right now there have only been five or six guys who have gotten the DSC-the second highest decoration the Army awards, as opposed to almost 20 Navy Crosses for the Marines/Navy Corpsmen in Iraq-so it seems to me that, just maybe, that should have been the front page story in the paper.
April 10th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Bill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.04.10
Note: I’m having some major problems posting at Bill’s Bites; I’ve submitted a Help Ticket but haven’t heard anything back from TypePad yet. Until I do I’m going to do things differently on this post than I normally do. I’ll