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<DIV><FONT size=2>Answers:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>1. The military's job.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>2. The people who join the military (like this soldier)
decide to accept those hazards, dangers and costs when they sign up.
Joining our armed forces if 'voluntary', remember??? It's not like we have
a draft.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>3. Sometimes, yes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>4. You don't think the Iraqi citizens appreciate what we're
doing for them?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>5. What needs justified?...people being hurt and
dying?........that's what war is, my friend. Call it what it
is.....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fundaoral@ttnet.net.tr href="mailto:fundaoral@ttnet.net.tr">Funda
Oral</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 07, 2005 3:58
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Word from a US soldier</DIV>
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<DIV>" Yeah, that’s not to say people are getting hurt and dying, but
that’s part of the job. It does just like the cop on the beat who’s
shot by a crack dealer-we just see more of it over here. You do the
job, and you accept the hazards, dangers and costs. You just do
your best to make what your doing worth the cause. BELEIVE me,
these Iraqi citizens appreciate it."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>questions:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>that's part of the job... : <FONT color=#0000ff>whose
job?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>You do the job, and you accept the hazards, dangers and
costs ....: <FONT color=#0000ff>who decides about that? who
accepts?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>You just do your best to make <EM>what your doing</EM> worth
the cause..: <FONT color=#0000ff>is it really the best that can be
done???</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>these Iraqi citizens appreciate it.........:<FONT
color=#0000ff> ?????????????</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>people are getting hurt and dying.....:<FONT
color=#0000ff> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! who can justify
this???? </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=ejespady@mydurango.net
href="mailto:ejespady@mydurango.net">Spady's</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 04, 2005 7:26
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Word from a US soldier</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>We recently received this message from a friend, fighting
in Iraq. I thought that it might be of interest for everyone to hear
things from a young soldier's perspective.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>If you think about it, we truly are "opening the space"
for the Iraqi people to live in peace.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Judy Spady</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A
href="mailto:ltdbdunn1980@hotmail.com">Daniel Dunn</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Moving
again</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Hey All:</DIV>
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<DIV>Alrighty, You all can un-pucker your fourth points of contact
(I’ll give a lesson on that when I get home if you don’t
understand). Let’s recap all that has
happened. I flew on the 20th and landed evening of the 22nd
in Kuwait, then went to Camp Buehring, which is a pushing base, not
receiving (going north, not coming south). At that point I
was supposed to go to the 506th infantry, the same unit in “Band of
Brothers.” Then, about a week later, we left and flew into
Iraq, landing at a small airbase in our Brigade
sector. Upon landing, I learned I would be going to 1st
Battalion, 503rd Infantry instead, and almost four days later, right
after Election Day here, we arrived at Camp Correigador, home of the
503rd. The history of THAT unit is that it was the only
Parachute Infantry Regiment to go to the Pacific theatre in WWII, and
earned its nickname of “The Rock,” by landing on The Island of
Correigador outside the Philippines. The island was famous
for being impenetrable.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now, after being assigned, Brigade has asked for personnel to
stand up a special unit. They’re calling it a MAT or
Military Assistance Team (similar to MAG in Vietnam). The
purpose is to train local Iraqi Security Forces to begin taking
control of the nation. Ladies and Gentleman, if you want
this war to end, then wish me the BEST of frickin
luck. This is the KEY to the US leaving. And God
knows I want that as much as any mother, father, wife,
etc. I do so because I was Mortared Last
night. Not hit by mortars (take a breath mom) but in the
Dining Facility and heard them coming in…WALKING in. They
came closer and closer, four of them. We waited for the
fifth that never came. It was just a little taste of war,
but it was sourer than fifteen-year-old grapes soaked in lemon juice
found at the bottom of a latrine. Makes you heart beat
quickly. Luckily, no casualties and we got back at them
with some new high tech stuff we got.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anyways, this is a good job. I’ll be at Brigade
Headquaters (which is why this doesn’t have an APO address yet), out
of the way most of the time, and when I’m on the streets, it’ll be
with other guys watching over Iraqi Troops, and, for those of you who
know that my hope is to one day join the Special Forces, this is a
GREAT start. That’s what SF does all the time!</DIV>
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<DIV>Spent Election Day at a small Marine Airbase called Al Taqueddum
(or TQ for short). The information about the events around
us was been sketchy. We heard most of the action is in
Baghdad, with some small pockets around us. Sitting in the
tent, we heard four large explosions off in the distance, and ran out
to see. We watched as two Marine Corps Cobra gunships
attacked targets on the ground near the town of
Falleujah. We could see the tracers and everything,
including smoke on the horizon. Occasionally you’d hear .50
cal’s shoot up at the choppers and they’d climb high out of
range. Then the shooting would stop and the helicopters
would go back down and engage again. We thought an AC-130
was going to clean up, but it just circled over the area once and
landed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Predator drones fly over constantly. It sounds like a
lawnmower in the sky! It’s kind of an odd sight, but damn,
cool thing to see. Not sure on the policy for photos, so I
hold off on that. Plus the light was waning, so it might
not have turned out very good.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We stayed in a tent about a football field away from the airstrip
so we see and hear all this air traffic. It made sleeping
at night tough, and I usually had to use ear plugs or my iPod to drown
out the noise of the aircraft, especially the -130’s and the Cobra’s
on night missions (we’re on a Marine controlled Airbase right
now).</DIV>
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<DIV>There’re these small local vendor store (we call a “Hadji-shop”)
that you can get things you’d never see in America. They
have bootleg DVD’s (most of which are still in theatre’s in the US,
but low quality in video), and VERY inexpensive electronics (but
questionable about legality on those), as well as Cuban Cigars for
very cheap (2 for $10, in comparison to a good Montecristo No. 2 in
the US (non-Cuban) for $16…don’t ask how I know).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Something I want you all to know (in case the Media f**ks THIS
one up) there WAS a 72% turn out at the Iraqi polls. There
were over 5,000 voters in Falleujah alone, which is good considering
that ended not two months ago. It ALMOST makes it all worth
it. I won’t tell what the cost was, because it isn’t my
place. It’s not THAT high in comparison to most of what
we’ve done, but…You also need to remember that every voter that DID go
out risked their life. The insurgents ran video ads on TV
that said they’d kill any voters in the street. These
people live in absolute TERROR of these people. Insurgents
regularly chop heads of in public squares, kill whole families for US
support, and often indiscriminate against US and
civilians. Meanwhile, the US builds schools, immunizes
children, pays for our damages AND the insurgents damages…I don’t tell
you this as propaganda or to gross you out, I say it out of shit I
have REALLY seen first hand. This war truly isn’t about oil
or WMD’s, at least not to us ground pounders. It’s about
ridding these people of a scared lifestyle.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Yesterday I talked to one of the Iraqi Commando force that is
attached to the 503rd. When I say talked, I mean tried to
break the language barrier, and for the most part, did fairly
well. We talked about families, and fighting, and stuff
like that. We traded dollar for Dinar and signed them for
each other. It was cool talking with someone from another
world (which again, goes to reinforce that I might be the right guy
for this new job).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anyways, I won’t scare you all anymore. I just want
all of you to know that WHATEVER the media says, it’s not all that bad
over here. IEDs don’t go off every day, and when they do,
someone doesn’t always die, mortars arne’t shot into Us compounds
everyday, and when they do, we’re not usually hit or killed, and
someone doesn’t die everyday over here. Yeah, that’s not to
say people are getting hurt and dying, but that’s part of the
job. It does just like the cop on the beat who’s shot by a
crack dealer-we just see more of it over here. You do the
job, and you accept the hazards, dangers and costs. You
just do your best to make what your doing worth the
cause. BELEIVE me, these Iraqi citizens appreciate
it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Take care all.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Daniel "Soldier Boy" Dunn</DIV>
<DIV>2LT, IN</DIV>
<DIV>2BCT/2ID</DIV>
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