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Photo taken by Petty Officer First Class Aaron Ansarov, U.S. Navy
South of Baghdad
During work on a bridge somewhere south of the capital, after three days without "morale communications" – the army's term for personal mail – Builder Third Class Jason Fletcher reads a letter from home. "W never knew where we were," the photographer says. "We were always just forward-deployed that's all I know."
Excerpted from THIS IS OUR WAR (Artisan Books) Copyright by The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Photograph copyright Aaron Ansarov..
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He was sent over to a fallen enemy's body to look for maps. The man had a folded pocketbook with a ribbon tying it closed. My father-in-law said when he opened the billfold there was a letter written in Japanese, and a photo of a mother with a baby on her lap.
My father-in-law, who'd often walked back and forth as bullets whizzed (not meant for him, he knew,) crawled back through the underbrush from that dead soldiers body this time, as there was a letter from his own wife and a photo in his own billfold of his brand new baby too.
Ten unsolicited points from the world's worst connection. Merry whatever you celebrate!