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

The Sandbox

The posts in the blog "The Sandbox" are by a variety of people who have been deployed. And their stories are just as diverse. They talk about everything from the trash over in the streets of Iraq, language barriers, to personal defense mechanisms. Some of the posts seem generally laid back and very casual where others made you sit up and pay attention because what was being described was no laughing matter. Most of the authors seemed sure of one thing, they were glad when they were over. They authors all seemed to be very caring and I guess thats why they got in to military in the first place, because they care about this country.

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