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

"Eighty Deuce on the Loose in Iraq" Blogs

The blogs by a young U.S. foot soldier talks about his experiences, his opinions of the war in Iraq and how he felt about what he had done in Iraq, and gladly how he enjoy being back home. From his blogs it seems like he has seen battles and all the other shit that happens in Iraq. Despite the fact his blogs are usually happy and full of pride in what he has accomplished. He feels good about what he has done in Iraq and he truly believes that one day Iraq will be peaceful place that he can come and visit with his children and grandsons. The fact that his proud of what he and the U.S. have done in Iraq this is not something you would hear frequently about nowadays on the media. The last two entries of his blog talked about how great it is to be back home and how much he is happy to see his family and friends. From reading these blogs, it is nice to get another point of view on the war and that it is not bad as I have imagined. I thought every soldier would have hated his time spent in Iraq or what he had done there and they would suffer from the same illnesses as the “Marlboro Man” did. Yet this is not the case, it is great to know that at least not all young man who served in Iraq are suffering from wounds both visible and invisible.

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