A different perspective, motivation in the honest sense.

[Mr. White]

This is marginally off-topic but it ties into the war and I figure that's close enough.

If you want a nights worth of reading, check out this guy's milblog.

http://funwithhandgrenades.blogspot.com/

I started reading back in 2005 and followed him through his first tour. If you want to see the effect of this war on just one of our individual soldiers start reading at the beginning.

Mods move if you want to, but can't be more off-topic than a lot of the stuff left on here.

[liberteebell]

Thank you for this link. That's some powerful writing.

The multiple and extended tours and the stop-loss thing have to be taking a huge toll on the military but I'm not sure the general public gets it. I constantly hear about how this is an "all volunteer military; they knew what they were signing up for". Isn't that disgusting!?!

[Mr. White]

bump for a good read.