I think the thesis of this internet blog is that life sucks during war and that being away from your family and friends is very had especially during the holiday season. He is very upset that his daughters are crying and that his wife is at home alone taking care of everything by himself. The individual in this piece would be Sgt. Zachary Scott-Singley and the system he would be involved with is the Iraqi and American governments. The two of them are the systems because they are both fighting against each other causing him to be put into the situation he is now in.
Some tricks he uses is personal experience. He shows us how everyday life is for him and how he struggles to get by. I think that is a very effective and good way to write for this kind of topic.
We have read something very similar to this in Baghdad Burning, although the woman in that was just a civilian and he is a soldier they are basically both experiencing the same tension and grief. I think the overall effectiveness of this is very good as I have mentioned earlier because he uses his own life to catch our attention as readers and to get us to see what he really has to go through as a active soldier fighting a war. One new word I read in this was mortars. A mortar is a muzzle-loading indirect fire weapon that fires shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. It typically has a barrel length less than 15 times its caliber.
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I have to agree with Manish's thesis and I believe that the author is struggling with the fact of being away from home for such a long time, so what better way than to rant on about his problems right? I like how Manish connected this blog entry to the entries we read about "Baghdad Burning."
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