"This Is Your War" is back

Posted By Blackfive

"Everything I have on today is something I wore in Iraq, my boots scuffed and bleached from sand and dirt and hard use, my blood type written in faded black ink on the outside and inside of each heel.
Before leaving Kuwait for the trip into Iraq in February 2005 I took all my Army brown T shirts into the shower trailer next to C for Charlie Companies tents and wrote my last four and blood type on the front of all of them. I was alone, and in the humid air of the trailer, I remember the act feeling rather sad and final.
Later, later, after seeing, working on, and evacing wounded I wrote my blood type on my belt, and later my boots, O POS."

My friend, Red2Alpha, is back!  After having his blog, This Is Your War, shut down and returning home (and having the largest role in "The Blog of War" with three separate pieces included in the book), MikeD is resurrecting his blog to help him work through some things during his transition back to civilian life at This Is Your War II.

Many of you have emailed me to ask how he's doing.  Now, you have a place to see for yourself.  His writing is excellent and he is struggling (who wouldn't?) with readjusting to life in America...I would say that he's struggling valiantly in the most recent chapter of his life.

Start with his post about Veterans Day and go from there.

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"This Is Your War" is back

"Everything I have on today is something I wore in Iraq, my boots scuffed and bleached from sand and dirt and hard use, my blood type written in faded black ink on the outside and inside of each heel.
Before leaving Kuwait for the trip into Iraq in February 2005 I took all my Army brown T shirts into the shower trailer next to C for Charlie Companies tents and wrote my last four and blood type on the front of all of them. I was alone, and in the humid air of the trailer, I remember the act feeling rather sad and final.
Later, later, after seeing, working on, and evacing wounded I wrote my blood type on my belt, and later my boots, O POS."

My friend, Red2Alpha, is back!  After having his blog, This Is Your War, shut down and returning home (and having the largest role in "The Blog of War" with three separate pieces included in the book), MikeD is resurrecting his blog to help him work through some things during his transition back to civilian life at This Is Your War II.

Many of you have emailed me to ask how he's doing.  Now, you have a place to see for yourself.  His writing is excellent and he is struggling (who wouldn't?) with readjusting to life in America...I would say that he's struggling valiantly in the most recent chapter of his life.

Start with his post about Veterans Day and go from there.

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