Personal Iraq Diary, 25 June 2004.

"When you think of war you are thinking about what happened yesterday. Funny about the whole thing is about 15 minutes before it happened I was in the shitter with SSG O.... and we were discussing how the Hajj doesn't have it in him to launch an offensive. One car bomb went off and I got into bed since it happens all the time. The second one almost knocked me out of bed. I swear to god I felt the conex flex from the blast. Just before rolling out Little E came by bitching about it being our day off...it was. On the road the BC came over the net saying he wanted everyone on a one minute leash meaning sit at your truck ready to roll. There were about a dozen enemy alerts come over the FBCB2 in that creepy female voice. It seemed that each enemy icon populated on the screen was either next to us as we passed or just ahead of us. There was an IED that hit the MPs and killed three while we were en route to meet with he IPs. About a mile from Sheik Fatih station we met with the cops who abandoned the station. There were three trucks loaded inside and the bed with cops. Some had been wounded slightly and they had no intention of going back."
Candle in the Dark

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