Soldiers Blogs Keep Us Informed
Want to really know what's happening in Iraq? This article outlines some Soldiers Blogs who are stationed in Iraq.
Spc. Colby Buzzell and a handful of others write unvarnished war reporting. But many of these blogs have been shut down.
Buzzell's squad was on a mission in a poor neighborhood in Mosul when two Iraqi boys ran up carrying old artillery shells. "Give me a dollar!" they said.
Another came carrying bullets and demanding money.
"Then, all of a sudden, this really skinny Iraqi kid comes running up to us with a f---- HAND GRENADE in his hand," Buzzell wrote on his war blog. "'Drop the f---- hand grenade! Drop it now!' We all started yelling. The little kid, still with this proud smile on his face that said, 'Look what I just found' just dropped the grenade on the ground, and walked over to my squad leader and said, 'Give me money!'"
The grenade didn't go off.