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MOMENT OF TRUTH
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New Orleans Magazine
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August 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Ed. Note: With this issue we continue our Baghdad Dispatch column, now written by two authors; Marine Capt. Mary Noyes, an attorney, and Marine Maj. Meredith Brown, an Iraqi Women's Engagement officer. Their respective columns will appear in alternate months. Noues moved to New Orleans in 2006; Brown is a native of Marrero. "Combat Cajun, " a Navy pilot who previously wrote this column and who. because of military rules, was not allowed to use his real name, has since left Iraq.
Another sleepless night in Iraq. I hear the buzzing of generators and humming of air conditioners outside. Every hour or so, a helicopter comes in for a landing and my trailer and little twin bed shudder. When I ...
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