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<DIV><FONT size=2>Dear Judy,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you for the answers. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Personally nothing can convince me that wars, any kind of
oppression can bring</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>over all well being, democracy and peace
anywhere.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I believe some Iraqi citizen who get some profit appreciate
what is happening there. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I know that all the countries depend each others, we are not
free from each other in many</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>aspects ( economic, political, cultural, social.....so on)
but still it can not be the military's</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>job and responsibility to bring peace anywhere by using
force.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Leave people alone, leave communities free so that they can
build their own future (OS)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>If you want to do anything, provide them with some
resources, but this should not be army, guns, wars etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Anyway, these are my general feelings.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Funda</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<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> Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:19
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Word from a US soldier</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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>
</DIV>
<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>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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>
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<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>
</DIV>
<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>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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
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<DIV>Hey All:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<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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