Marine Items

Liability Warning: Today's items are not suitable for the exceptionally embittered.

If you don't read the NY Times you might have missed this story about a marine and CNN journalist that 'met cute' amid the mayhem in Iraq.

She looked up from her desk at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad a few days later, and there he was: dirty, loaded with weapons, and grinning because he had found her.

Also, this marine writes harrowing, battlefield-level accounts of the fighting around Falluja, posted as letters to his dad. This is the real McCoy. (But ... people who don't think war is ever necessary should steer clear.) His last post, incidentally, was November 3rd.