Oh yes I remember the CNN with Christiane Amenpour...and Wolf Blitzer and that other guy..whats his name..
We would be in the lounge at the end of the day watching it well into the night. I dubed it The Wide World of War ( sort of like the wide world of sports). We couldn't tear ourselves away.
I didn't go over.. our unit was deployed on a specific call from the CG over there. Basically they needed triger pullers not a lot of "heavies" ( meaning senior officers).
I won't even tell you what the causalty estimates were then. Remember we were afraid that Saddam was going to use chem warfare...
That's exactly how we were - I would go over to a neighbor's house and we would drink blue/pink/red thingies and could NOT tear ourselves away from CNN. Wolf just stood there in the vast wasteland with his mike. I think my brother was a 2nd Lieutenant then and we kept hoping for a glimpse.
Oh, that's right - I remember now and that is why we (my family) were in a chronic state of fear. The casualty estimates... We were a bit better for all his other assignments. He was bummed he didn't get to go to Iraq last year.
Nermal has me right where he wants me now. He is taking full advantage of my feelings of guilt. Now, when he is served regular cat food, he just looks at me as if to say, "this is unacceptable, human. I will have tuna."