Stories tagged war

Hell and back...

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Sarge had done this before. Not with this many rookies and not on a one-way trip. This was a suicide mission. The boys didn't know it, but he did. They weren't coming back. Hell, they couldn't come back

Peripheral Anthropomorphism and the Fall of Troy

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For Hector it was animals. Rats, dogs, fish, and quite often horses – sometimes even lions. But for Achilles, it was always dead bodies.

Casualties of War

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When Jimmy – and Frank and John and all the rest – joined up, it all seemed a big lark. Little Mary – she can’t have been more than about five years old – was dead proud her Dad was going off to fight the Germans. I doubt she really knew who the

The Boy and the Rest of His Life

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Many men ran about, some retreating fully and others digging in along side of me. Some of them without a shirt or helmet, but all with blood shot eyes. My brothers and I dug in hard and set our sights on our enemies.

Nowhere in Sight

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Passing for a dead boy ain't gonna be easy.

A Curse on First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross

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You see, this Jimmy Cross had a sweetheart by the name of Martha. And while he was thinking of her, one of his men died on the way to the latrine.

Airman

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Tent City has gone quiet. There is a deadline. I heard it on the news. I’ve never thought about the word before. How in this place it means what it means.

November 30, 2003 - Iraq

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begging you, world, for peace

Patience

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Soon after the young soldiers walked away taking their Burger King, i-pods, and bombs, they captured the last female politician in a cave near the Khyber pass.

Strange Justice

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I’m not who I expected to be.

Fourth World

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Where are you going, boy who never was?

Isis

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Ladies, I don’t understand your world.

Anfal means "to take everything"

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they tried to trick the sun

Infamy

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These were the kind of days children dreamed of. A warm sun shone over Coronado, California. December weather on the island did not prevent outside play. The wind off the bay remained soft, even if chilled. Church let out early. There was time to pla

Stories from the War

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He didn’t know how to tell his story. It wasn’t an easy story to tell. There certainly was a clear beginning, but it didn’t make much sense to start at the beginning. There was no way to end the story either; the ending seemed to last forever.