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Ghost of Love
Here's a snippet from a current Newsweek article (emphasis mine):
"?I want to go to combat,? says Sgt. Mathew Figley of the Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division....
Sergeant Figley, 22, is sorry he missed combat in Afghanistan. ?That was a heartbreaker,? he says. He is not worried about dying, he says. Danger ?is just part of life. If it?s my time, I die.? Says Figley: ?There?s no stress here. It?s a cakewalk. It?s so easy.?
Figley?s manly nonchalance is not unusual among the enlisted men of the Second Brigade. The Third I.D. is a rapid-reaction force, armor and infantry that can be sent anywhere in the world on short notice. During a chaplain?s prayer in the Kuwaiti desert, a GI yells out, ?Pray for war!? On the barrel of his tank, one young commander has stenciled ALL THE WAY TO BAGHDAD."
I must be praying to the wrong God.
"?I want to go to combat,? says Sgt. Mathew Figley of the Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division....
Sergeant Figley, 22, is sorry he missed combat in Afghanistan. ?That was a heartbreaker,? he says. He is not worried about dying, he says. Danger ?is just part of life. If it?s my time, I die.? Says Figley: ?There?s no stress here. It?s a cakewalk. It?s so easy.?
Figley?s manly nonchalance is not unusual among the enlisted men of the Second Brigade. The Third I.D. is a rapid-reaction force, armor and infantry that can be sent anywhere in the world on short notice. During a chaplain?s prayer in the Kuwaiti desert, a GI yells out, ?Pray for war!? On the barrel of his tank, one young commander has stenciled ALL THE WAY TO BAGHDAD."
I must be praying to the wrong God.