Posted on 08/14/2004 6:34:57 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
Today I received my first writing assignment. Not really the most glamorous of writing assignments, but a writing assignment none the less. It was a simple write up for an award that's going to be turned in for another soldier in my Plt, for his actions on 04 Aug.
When I first got here, I asked my wife to mail me a small portable dictionary and a thesaurus. Something I could stash in my cargo pocket and read whenever I needed something to help pass the time. She mailed me a pretty good one that was a Dictionary and a Thesaurus combined. I wanted to use that Thesaurus today for this project that I was handed, but of course, a couple days ago a Sgt in my Plt asked me if I had he could borrow it, so I loaned it to him and haven't seen it since. Out of curiosity, before I loaned it to him I asked him why he wanted to borrow it, and bashfully he told me that he wanted to use the thesaurus to boost his vocabulary in his love letters to his wife.
Writing my take on this award was pretty cool, and kinda fun. I kept my sentences simple, but forceful, always making sure my words had strong military bearing to them. (In case you're wondering, yes, I was also put in for an award for actions on 04 Aug.)
Today on our way to breakfast one of the other team Ldrs in my Sqd informed me that his parents are avid readers of this site. It gives them a better understanding on what our days are actually like here, and what their son is also going through. He told me that his father saves all the entries that I write on a separate file, and he goes through it all and meticulously deletes all the swearwords and vulgar language out of it, and then hands the PG-13 (for violence) profanity free version of this site to his mother to read. He told me that this has been a very arduous task for his father, deleting the many profanities that's littered through out a majority of my writings. (Sorry dude) My roommate's sister also reads this site (hi) and she also told him, to tell me to, "Save the Profanities for the movie!" She also does the same thing, deletes the explicit language out of my sh*t so that her 10 year old son can read it, so that way he can get a good idea of what his uncle has to go through out here in Iraq. Sorry for all the cuss-words, its just how I talk and write. Nothing much to write about today. Today was dull, spent majority of today reading and smoking and joking with other guys in my Plt.
LOL!
Save it for the movie..
Now they will hit with every decoration and award that needs to be written, but the unit history should be something.
Might even become the equilvaqlant of Company commander or Platoon leader, or dare I say The Thin Red Line, not the second movie but the book.
REAL sgts don't write love letters.... And if there's anything in the relationship that they wants to boost, it ain't their vocabulary..
I have been reading his blog for a little while. "Men in Black" was very good. I was concerned about his lack of posting for the last 9 days.There are several dictionaries online. This one also has a thesaurus. http://www.m-w.com/
Nice post Cannoneer!
Hey TX - thought you might enjoy this one!
Truthfully, his sentence structure and writing stylw suck. But then I read his blog for the information from a grunt's perspective.
When I want eloquently written descriptions of Iraq, I go to the Bellmont Club blog.
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