Marine Items
December 23rd, 2008
Liability Warning: Today’s items are not suitable for the exceptionally embittered.
If you don’t read the NY Times you might have missed this story about a marine and CNN journalist that ‘met cute’ amid the mayhem in Iraq.
She looked up from her desk at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad a few days later, and there he was: dirty, loaded with weapons, and grinning because he had found her.
Also, this marine writes harrowing, battlefield-level accounts of the fighting around Falluja, posted as letters to his dad. This is the real McCoy. (But … people who don’t think war is ever necessary should steer clear.) His last post, incidentally, was November 3rd.