Archive for June, 2009

With the 4th of July approaching, I thought it might be appropriate to list a few of the rules regarding display of the flag.  These were all things I was taught in school, but seem to have been forgotten in general by most of the population.  Anyway, you can find a lot of the guidelines for Flag display and use here, which incidentally is where I borrowed the quote below from.

Enjoy your Independence Day.

My life in Iraq for the past week.

The little tidbits of life my life for the past week or so.

I just wanted to share this photo I took of the sandstorm as it passed through the last couple of days.  Yes, Dustoff will fly in this weather if the patient is classified as urgent.

It all started early in the morning in a busy market of a town near here.  A market usually patrolled and guarded by the Iraqi Police.  A market where the police usually prevent vehicles from entering so that occurrences of violence wouldn’t happen.  For some reason, this particular morning no IPs were to be found according to the reports.  A man in non-traditional clothing drove his vehicle into the busy market, parked it, and walked away.  A few minutes later his vehicle exploded, wounding more than 70 and killing 29 people – including women and children.  Innocent people going about their daily lives.

Was this a strike against coalition forces? No, none were anywhere close.  Was this a strike against the Iraqi Police or government? No, as I stated they were mysteriously missing this morning.  This was a strike by terrorist cowards against the people of Iraq in order to strike fear and hate into the hearts of the people.  It was an act of violence such as hadn’t been seen in this part of the country in a long time.  Why? Because it was an easy target and the people here believe differently than the people who blew them up.

Until I can find a way to make my Tweets into a useful entry format, I will be posting a digest of the tweets you see at the top of the index page.  That way I can capture the tweets for posterity, as well as allowing the three of you that read this site the opportunity to actually comment on them.  The digest is created from the twitter account’s RSS Feed in case you would like to subscribe.  Also feel free to tweet, re-tweet, Facebook, etc anything that you find on here.  Just credit it appropriately it please.

So without further ado, I give you the Tweet summary back to the first of the month.

So, I haven’t posted in the past couple of weeks, because there hasn’t been anything to post about.  Things have been relatively quiet which is a good thing.  We have had MEDEVACs, but nothing really exciting to write about.  I have basically been living my daily life.