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Article: 'Operation Homecoming' writings reveal Iraq war through troops' eyes
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- December 11, 2004
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SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-11-2004
Dateline: SAN DIEGO
From Mosul, Iraq, soldier Ryan Alexander wrote a poem about a pregnant cat, "a happy distraction" that he fed from prepackaged military meals. Ignoring warnings from medics, Alexander put on a plastic glove and petted the wild creature, "who may be the one true heart and mind that America had won over."
Back home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Melissa Herman imagined what her reaction would have been had her Army husband been aboard a helicopter that crashed in Iraq.
"I can feel the devastation and hurt of knowing that I am alone," she wrote. "I feel trapped in a tornado: screaming, crying, angry then numb."
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