Last Days at the FOB

This is my journal entry for the Blog that I read which is titled " Last Days at the FOB" By Dutch Proverb. http://http://thunder6.typepad.com/365_arabian_nights/2006/01/last_days_at_th.htmlForm reading this blog got a vivid sense of what it is like for a person to go to war for so many months. In this Blog he talks about how he has physically and mentally changed since he has been in the war. for example when he states, " I am leaving this FOB a different man then the one who arrived at these chill gates those many months ago. I’ve sipped from the poison chalice of loss."

In this blog he also speaks of the family that he has developed with the other soldiers while in combat. Ones that he gets to go home with and ones that he has lost. for instance, "But here on the bleeding edge we became more something greater than our individual parts. We became a family." He is filled with sadness and the fact that he has lost fellow soldiers that he considers family, however he is overjoyed with the fact that he is soon going to come home to his family.

From reading this blog, I learned that even if the soldiers return home with minor injuries or scares there is still going to be a lasting effect of mental damage that they will encounter. This will be due to the things that they've seen and the people that they've lost while over there. The only thing that i can say is that the soldiers need to come home to their families. What is going on in Iraq is something terrifying that makes you question whether or not your going to live to see the next day.

by: Geraldine Norlaes