Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Baghdad Journal

This blog is about soldiers in Baghdad and the way they interact with other troops and soldiers and how they deal with their current war situation. The tone of the blog is relaxed but you can sense that the soldiers are ready to come home. They admit that they can not win this battle alone and that they need help from the UN and other outside allies. The blog starts out talking about what the soldiers' favorite baseball teams are and they make jokes. Reading the blog made me realize how real the war in Iraq is and how these soldiers deal with being in Iraq. It helps me see what the soldiers feel and think about and how they interact with each other. It is a realistic good blog to keep up with if you are following the war in Iraq.

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