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.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

celebrating

For Memorial Day itself I could not state a single event in which one may directly connect with the spirit of the holiday. But looking at the long weekend as a whole more closely at what I did and comparing it to what the holiday really means. I was able to make some connections. Over the long weekend in summary I did mainly a few things. Work, see my family and friends along with attending a neighbors barbeque for his son’s first birthday. Although you may not be able to see a direct connection to the holiday, what I realized is that we were remembering the holiday by being with the people you enjoy the most and doing what you love most. Memorial day weekend provides people the chance to sit back and really enjoy their lives. Because as we see from the holiday itself and the reason behind it. You do not know how much longer we have or what could happen to any of us in the next hour or day.

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