A Minute Longer

This blog tells the first-hand tale of an Iraqi soldier. The accounts from this soldier, Will, is quite unique in that although he is participating in a very serious war - he maintains a sarcasm about his daily routine cleaning his equipement. Even referring to his equipment as "crappy" and saying that his job is to put the taxpayers dollars to use and keep his army equipment looking like it's worth something. In his second post he utilizes parentheses to enclose the word "(again)" when describing his task in the war to throughly clean his "crappy" gear as well as his other meanial tasks - but he adds this time that it is something necessary to prevent the soldiers from bringing foreign insects back to the states; he says that for that reason he will continue to scrub the heck out of his equipment.
His blog takes a turn when he returns home to Wisconsin and lets his readers in on his plan to get drunk and his succeeding blog where he proclaims that he still may be hung over. This Will is definetely a unique character and as his blog states it is a way for him to keep from going insane while over in Iraq. Will adds a comedic view to what I and other people think of war - he maintains the seriousness of the war, especially in his last blog where he talks about how he wishes he was over there (once he returns home) - but he also does not lack comedy when he makes light of the fact that the Iraqi people just need to give in because the US is killing more of them than they are killing Americans (he tells them to not listen to their God and look at the example of the Somali's when thousands of them died and only 24 American soldiers were killed). Will's humor lets me see a different side of the soldiers in the Iraqi war and clues me into the crazy things that runs through their minds.