Yesterday, in the New York Times, I read a disturbing article by an embedded reporter who is with the Marines in Falluhah: In Falluja, Young Marines Saw the Savagery of an Urban War by Dexter Filkins.
I was first struck by how it seemed more like a story from a novel, or a biography, more than an article from one of the most important newspapers in the world. The style wasn't sterile and fact-bound, though it was certainly factual. It was an account written by someone who was touched by what he saw, touched by the soldiers he met and who he saw die.
It was a very moving account and gave me some insight into what these young kids are going through, though, obviously, I could never being to understand the true horror and terror these young soldeirs must have felt during the assault.
Worth reading...
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