For those of you who don't know him, Dread Cow is, or rather has been, a rifleman serving in Iraq, and he maintained a blog, Fun with Hand Grenades. Now he has returned home.  And he has posted two remarkable columns to his site on his reactions to re-entering the world. Read them here at Milk and Honey and then Reflection, part one I find it strange that the army prepares us for going over, but tells us noting about how to come home. and most vets tend to tell war stories and neglect the equally important coming home stories. At least since Homer wrote The Odyssey based on returning from the Trojan War. This Old War Dog intends to spend much of today preparing as a tribute, my own experiences. Meantime, go read Dread Cow. And if any of you other hounds feels moved to howl your own coming home stories, it will be good.

-Rurik

Contributed by George Mellinger on July 3, 2006 at 10:37 AM in Coming home, George Mellinger | Permalink

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Posted by: Ponsdorf

Great idea! WILCO

Mines a bit boring, but maybe typical enough to be of interest to some.

Posted by: Ponsdorf | Jul 3, 2006 2:37:46 PM