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.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Memorial Day

This Memorial Day was very different for me this year. For the past four years I was subjected into going to my high school early in the morning to get ready for a parade stand in the hot sun for a few hours watch someone suffer from heat stroke and then have to share a bottle of water with five other people. After that I got to go home sit down and then make Italian hot dogs for my family for dinner. This year was the direct opposite. I woke up around ten, my dad was off of work which was a little weird for me. Then my parents went to the beach with their friends for the day as I sat and waited for my friend to pick me up and bring me back to school. I went the whole day not once thinking of the people who died for our country instead I was thinking "Man, I'm going to screw up what day it is all week." I did not have a good dinner, instead if was a lovely awful meal at the Handschmacher dining hall.

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