thedrifter
12-18-07, 06:49 AM
New Yorker of the Year [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
From the New York Daily News:
Four back-breaking, soul-crushing, nation-rending years later, U.S. troops are at last scoring remarkable successes in Iraq - saving lives, calming strife and fostering the conditions necessary to build a self-governing country from its own rubble.
There are thousands of reasons why the picture has brightened in these past few months. One of them is Army Spec. Pierce Clouden, of Canarsie, Brooklyn, who has been stationed at Camp Taji, northwest of Baghdad, since August as part of the "surge."
"Don't know when I am going home, but it's not any time soon," Clouden told us last week. "I love my job, and I reenlisted for four more years."
That's a soldier.
An American soldier.
A soldier to whom this country gratefully owes much.
Ellie
From the New York Daily News:
Four back-breaking, soul-crushing, nation-rending years later, U.S. troops are at last scoring remarkable successes in Iraq - saving lives, calming strife and fostering the conditions necessary to build a self-governing country from its own rubble.
There are thousands of reasons why the picture has brightened in these past few months. One of them is Army Spec. Pierce Clouden, of Canarsie, Brooklyn, who has been stationed at Camp Taji, northwest of Baghdad, since August as part of the "surge."
"Don't know when I am going home, but it's not any time soon," Clouden told us last week. "I love my job, and I reenlisted for four more years."
That's a soldier.
An American soldier.
A soldier to whom this country gratefully owes much.
Ellie