Tuesday, August 30, 2005

A Year to Remember

Well, this is it. This is what the war has come to. I have heard that at other bases (Baghdad to be specific) they were doing this as well, but I guess I hoped for the best and was sadly disappointed. The unit I am attached to has decided to make a yearbook for this deployment.

I spoke with the soldier who had been put in charge of getting a picture of everyone for the yearbook and the soldier said that they (the person who assigned that soldier the task, just think of someone who may have too much time on their hands and who is in charge of soldiers) wanted to have a color yearbook, but that nobody wanted to pay $10 for it (nobody really wants a free one either to be honest) so they are doing a black and white one.

I thought my ears had heard wrong as I stared in amazement to the words coming out of that soldier's mouth. So this is it? This is how we are spending your tax dollars? I suppose there is something I just don't understand here... Like maybe this will help us in the 'War on Terror' somehow. Who really knows.

Days here seem to read right out of Joseph Heller's book Catch-22. I wish I could laugh at it all but I just don't have it in me.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Man, you gotta write a book about this stuff.

Anonymous said...

sargeant zachary,

for shame for shame. are you drinking on the job now?

trevor, are you gonna pin this on our sister hurria¿

jus wonderin, "how long will he take till the cd evolves to co?

stay safe, all of you. (cept butch.....et al)

f

cognitive dissonace = conscientious objector

Anonymous said...

Zach - your yearbook is right here, man. The ink-and-paper type is so "yesterday"
Stay safe
-- g4macmaniac

phinky said...

So what is name of the yearbook going to be? "We're one big happy family", "We really truly want to be here", or how about "Morale is great, wish you were here" ?
But then, my Dad has yearbooks from Med Cruises when he was in the Navy. (Rolls eyes and shakes head in amazement)

Anonymous said...

a year book recording not "history" or "the lives making it" but "the life that is yours"
stay with it, zach...

Anonymous said...

I've seen a yearbook from (post Tet offensive) Vietnam. Trust me - your blog is better.

Stay safe - -

Terrible said...

That sounds like the Army alright! Of course it's supposed to be some kind of "morale booster" but guys who never leave a HQ building don't know squat about morale.

Terrible said...

OH and in case your blog gets taken down in the new round of Mil. Blog scrutiny Zack, I want to say I've enjoyed reading your posts and the comments here very much. You should make a book from it when you get back. Stay safe and get home soon!

Anonymous said...

You're a soldier who took his oath seriously. The obligation sticks with you. The pain goes away, as my friends who served in combat tell me, if you survive long enough.

I don't know if this will help, but you can listen to my song

www.stepfour.com/bagdad/bagdad.mp3

Anonymous said...

... nope, no words for that.

Anonymous said...

Hurria and Kristin...


Shut your fucking holes GO some where else