Comments on Caitlin's Journalism Blogs: SBlogs

I can't believe someone whose had 4 yrs of collage...

2007-11-02T15:20:00.000-04:00

I can't believe someone whose had 4 yrs of collage can be so out of touch with the real world. Support the troops but no the mission is bullshit you can't do one without the other. If thinking that makes you "feel" better and looking at that video makes you sick it says a lot about the kind of person you are. I wasn't going to waste my time responding here but somebody needs to bring some reality into your pathetic little world.

I've interviewed a handful of soldiers who have re...

2007-04-13T01:59:00.000-04:00

I've interviewed a handful of soldiers who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq. It gets really creepy for me when they describe battles and firefights they have been involved in as "like playing a video game." No joke, one told me playing Halo against his friends in high school was some of the best training he had for battles near Baghdad.

I've asked a few what it is like to shoot at and possibly kill another person. You don't often get an answer to that question.