"Operation Truth" is a web site for soldiers....

[JohnnyRingo]

"Operation Truth is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the soldiers who have experienced them first-hand."

I've been sorting through the vet's personal blogs for about an hour now...interesting insight to the REAL cost of war.

http://optruth.org/main.cfm


The Sound of the Ground War
Andrew Borene is a First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps who served in Iraq from October 2002 to August 2004. This is a journal entry he wrote from Baghdad.

April 5, 2003

"The sound of the ground war is the low idle of diesel engines
Slowly clicking and clanking chains on the rear gate of a seven ton truck
Occasional machine gun chatter from in front and behind
Sporadic thumps and whumps of distant artillery
The uneasy creaking of worn and dusty brakes"


I saw a lot of death today… Cows, sheep, Iraqis, Marines. I wonder if it will bother me later. Right now I just wish I felt something.

Continued here:
http://optruth.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=hear&htmlId=1185

[Pallas180]

1. woa. keep posting their stuff, and keep this thread alive -

thanks

[Ducks In A Row]

2. kick

[WilliamPitt]

3. Big kick

[Duncan Grant]

4. Featured on "NOW with Bill Moyers" 9/17/04

"Operation Truth is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the soldiers who have experienced them first-hand."
http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm

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Please keep this kicked DU - :hi:

NOW link: http://www.pbs.org/now/society/murphy.html