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Why

Badger Six re staying on:  

The answer of course is complex and has a myriad of reasons both personal and professional. It was a mutual decision between Mrs. Badger 6 and myself. We took about a week to make the decision about how it would affect us, but we decided that the personal challenges it would afford us also offered us personal opportunity.

Professionally I was simply not ready to call this done; I think I have something to contribute to the war effort and while there are things I could do from home, for a variety of reasons I became convinced that in fact I would not make the difference I hoped to and thus I decided, when presented with the opportunity, to stay in Iraq.

Unfortunately most of the United States is not at war; her Armed Forces are, but the rest of the country it seems just simply wants to move it off the evening news.

I get so tired of people saying “they would serve, but . . . .”

Whole thing. His expressed reasons are more or less the first take of my speculation. My second take, what his action evoked for me, is something different he doesn’t get into. But command, that kind of responsibility are very different things from wandering around, hanging out, taking notes. So where is he and what is he doing? A little on that here. 

Don, meanwhile, back in Idaho, is homesick.

Topics: Iraq, blogs, military

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:18 pm on Monday, October 8, 2007

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