Marcos's Post

The series of blogs is about “a soldier who struggles in Iraq”. The individual is the soldier and the system is the war. He says before he went in to the war, he was a hard nose republican and believed in the government. As his time in war grows, he realizes his government isn’t as prefect as he thought. He doubts his government and their plans for Iraq. The writer who is actually the soldier writes with short sentences. He sometimes curses in his writing but it is to emphasize a point. He also used rhetorical questions; for example when asking if it was normal for him to enjoy the sound of missiles being launched. He also asks questions and answers the normal responses to them kind of like Sarcasm. I once talked to an old veteran. He told me the exact date he killed a man and then he told me the exact date he started praying. They were the same dates. I feel like the writer and the veteran were having the same doubts but one from a religious aspect and the other from a spiritual aspect. The piece is pretty effective and it shows the soldier’s concern towards the Iraqi people. The soldier writes very well and clear. An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action