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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.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Week Seven--War Blogs

The blog i chose to write about is called "A minute longer." The first thing you see is a simple page decorated in blue and red, and a soldier is salute. It seems that the page isn't working properly, because there are disables links on the sides. The Author of the blog is Will. He used to work for gateway ad was in the reserve for 13 years. He says he enjoys being part of the army because he is good at it not because he has a power struggle.
The last post says that he turned off commenting, and im not sure why, id its because he went home and isn't going to reply to the blog anymore because he found better things to do with his time.
From the posts i read, it seems he enjoys his place in the war, ad feels the war is going on for a good reason, "Give us what we want and we'll go away."He tells Iraq to give up and follow America like other counties (Somalia) have done in the past. He mentions we have a rough Texan in the white house He sounds very patriotic. He is enthusiastic about his job, as a biological weapons specialist. He cleans equipment and makes sure that the fighting soldiers will be safe in combat. In one post he says that he was cleaning and yet again recleaning because the army is big on keeping things clean. I think the army is big on keeping soldiers with a purpose so they wont have time to think about quitting..

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