Thursday, February 09, 2006

 

I'm Gonna Miss This

Artistic MilBlogger Fire and Ice is about to go home.
All good things must come to an end. This sojourn to Iraq is quickly drawing to a close and Friday night I'll start my return trip to the land of the big PX. For a final time an ASR number will be scrawled on the back of my left hand. In the darkness one last "seabag drag", weighted down with ALL my gear, into the back of a waiting helo. The dark expanse of Iraq will glide below us. Into memory will fade golden fragments of light spilling out from windows and doorways of Iraqi homes, and the strands of silvery headlights coiling across the landscape marking the midnight path of a coalition convoy.
His pictures and drawings and paintings have done a great deal to show Iraq for the beautiful place that it is. Beautiful because we have removed the ugliness and let the beauty shine through.

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# posted by John Schroeder @ 2/09/2006 05:35:00 AM
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