My soulmate of 27 years had become a stranger
By: Maggie
Independence Day
By: Brendon
Soot of the burn pits and burning feces barrels rose through the air like black charcoal in the Iraqi haze. The compound within Nasiriyah was hot today, real damn hot, like 126 degrees hot. Anyone whose ever been deployed, knows that the war gods will always put us in the worst place and climate, and then laugh at our daily misery.