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Home Front: WoT
The American GI from Berlin - wounded in Iraq
2008-03-06
Long Der Spiegel article on an African/German man who moved to the US, joined the Army after the March 2004 terrorists changed the Spanish election and deliberately sought combat in Iraq. Worth the read, even if there are occasional digs of that particuarly annoying German condescension here and there.
Posted by:lotp

#6  Wow. Quite a man. As are the Apache crew that medevaced him out.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-03-06 22:02  

#5  Thats the problem with the current "peace" movement - they are lazy bastards who arrogantly whine and condescendingly refuse to reason out the ultimate guarantor of their freedom to do so, all from the comfort of liberty, which their betters (the soldiers) are laboring to maintain.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-03-06 20:25  

#4  From the bottom of page 1:
The father ends up saying: "I am in favor of peace." To which Jeff responds: "But someone has to achieve that peace." The father repeats: "I am in favor of peace."

This only upsets Jeff. Normally he tends to be quiet and calm. But now he raises his voice, his body tenses up and his words become deliberately hurtful: "And what are you doing so that we can have peace? How much longer do you think you'd be sitting around drinking coffee in fancy Berlin cafés if people like me didn't exist? If there was nobody to make sure you could live in peace? If there was nobody to fight terrorism?"

American vs. German, right there. I have to run, so I'll read the rest of the article later. I hope he did get sworn in as a citizen already, although I'm not sure what the wait is for volunteer soldiers.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-03-06 13:13  

#3  He fixed it though. I'm glad he made himself one of us, and hope he exercised his right to vote. Thank you, sir.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-03-06 13:03  

#2  Another American born in the wrong place.
Posted by: Mike   2008-03-06 11:21  

#1  Way more balanced than typical German articles. Quite a story.
Posted by: Menhadden Snogum6713   2008-03-06 11:21  

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