War is not confined in the past, Kurt Vonnegut wrote 50 years ago. Neither are his lessons.
Soldiers from 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment in Baquba, Iraq on Mar. 14, 2007. By Alex Horton Alex Horton General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 13 at 7:35 AM A group of kids sat on the schoolhouse wall and watched Stryker 2-1 approach, and they had a way of knowing that children often do. Some of them plugged their ears.
There was no one to write romantic letters to, but killing and romantic letters from home are the chief concerns in a war, if I understood films correctly. I found Lauren on Myspace. It got romantic. I tucked it into my cargo pocket and read it, cover to cover, as fast I could, and I read it again. It came with me to guard posts in Baghdad and primitive outposts in the Diyala River valley. I passed it among my platoon-mates to read under a red lens at night.
Vonnegut was an Army scout captured in the Battle of the Bulge and shoved into a slaughterhouse meat locker in Dresden, before cathedrals and people incinerated in the night in mid-February 1945. Post-traumatic stress can bend time, she said, and the sense of how recent or distant something is can be distorted when a memory is triggered. The library has constantly seen this theme play out, Whitehead said, through book discussion groups and workshops with veterans.The world, I figured. There are U.S. troops fighting and dying in more countries in 2019 than when I was in Iraq in 2007, and when I see images of them on the news or Twitter, I peer closely.
We saw the Coliseum in Rome and stopped by an Internet cafe. I hadn’t known my company just ended river city.
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