Things in Iraq- well what can i say. things haven't gotten any better, with the exeptions of a few american built facilities for coalition use only. in the short term these new conveniences (subway, burger king, bigger PX, better chowhalls) seem great, and then you must realize that they are further proof of our long term stay. which must be very depressing for the troops that are forced to be here and are driving around in the red zone everyday having their lives threatened. as for the booms and bombs, we had a HUGE firefight the other day right near where i live (but across the tigris of course) it woke me up around 3 and didn't let up until around 8 with continual morter shelling, rockets, explosions and small arms fire. i was pissed because i had to go to work and it's really hard to sleep when people are making a suicidal offensive on the green zone.
well that's all cheerio!
The above is from the end of an email sent to me by my son who is presently working as a combat firefighter in Iraq.
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