Last night's homework was to read an article about the war and respond to it. Below are two responses.
Response 1)
Boom thats all we hear in the news people killing each other to have peace in there country. Terrorism is getting worse every day and there is nobody to stop racism and hatred against there own country or things that people have done in the past and now they are putting revenge on there aiming target. Every single day we are having news from Iraq and that Saddam Hussein was hanged for his bad behavior. In my opinion I can say that people should not use other country's as a battle field thats is just sad because before you know it were going to have dead humans around the world.http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/worldspecial/index.html?excamp=OVGNwariniraq
Response 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
i think the war is alot better then just giving in. ever since i heard the son "have you forgotten" it changed my perspective, we think the war is bad because our family are in it but you don't think about what would happen if we din't have war. and if we gave in that would not be protecting or preventing what happened when the twin towers fell. i seriously think people need to think about what i said.
Thoughts?
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
32 degrees in Iraq???
If you think the temperature never gets below freezing in Iraq you're very wrong. In fact, the Baghdad area has been averaging between 28 and 35 degress as a low. I wasn't ready for the 120 degree temperatures that promise to plague the summer months but I wasn't ready to be cold either. Then again, I wasn't ready for most of what I've encountered so far.
My name is SGT Jenny Morgan. In about two months I'll be spending my 24th birthday in beautiful Baghdad. Probably we'll celebrate by me doing 24 push-ups while my buddies sing "Happy Birthday" to me and we'll all eat a chocolate Otis Spunkmeier muffin since that's the closest thing we get to cup-cakes around here. Originally, I'm from Springfield, Illinois where 28 degrees and lower is normal this time of year. I pretty much grew up there and that's where I met Mr. Chase. We were friends in high school (which really wasn't all that long ago and we're not THAT old...thanks.)
I joined the National Guard when I was 19. Honestly, I got bored in college and thought it'd be an adventure. And it has been. Four years and seven months of adventure. I've been to South America on medical missions and got to help out in New Orleans when Katrina hit. But the Army also awarded me the money I needed to finish school and I graduated from college last May (something I think you all should experience). I graduated in May and started my journey to Iraq in June. Needless to say, I didn't get much of a summer break. Bummer.
With all the buzz around the media about the war in Iraq I thought it might be a good idea to link up with you so you can get a different perspective on what's really happening here (Mr. Chase thought it was a good idea too). While I can't talk alot about what goes on here, I'll try the best I can to answer any questions you might have about Iraqis, Islam, the military and the war. While I'm not a subject matter expert, I'm experiencing day to day what you read about in the paper. It's just that the paper doesn't always capture the picture the way it really was. So dig deep, think hard, and ask away.
SGT Jenny
My name is SGT Jenny Morgan. In about two months I'll be spending my 24th birthday in beautiful Baghdad. Probably we'll celebrate by me doing 24 push-ups while my buddies sing "Happy Birthday" to me and we'll all eat a chocolate Otis Spunkmeier muffin since that's the closest thing we get to cup-cakes around here. Originally, I'm from Springfield, Illinois where 28 degrees and lower is normal this time of year. I pretty much grew up there and that's where I met Mr. Chase. We were friends in high school (which really wasn't all that long ago and we're not THAT old...thanks.)
I joined the National Guard when I was 19. Honestly, I got bored in college and thought it'd be an adventure. And it has been. Four years and seven months of adventure. I've been to South America on medical missions and got to help out in New Orleans when Katrina hit. But the Army also awarded me the money I needed to finish school and I graduated from college last May (something I think you all should experience). I graduated in May and started my journey to Iraq in June. Needless to say, I didn't get much of a summer break. Bummer.
With all the buzz around the media about the war in Iraq I thought it might be a good idea to link up with you so you can get a different perspective on what's really happening here (Mr. Chase thought it was a good idea too). While I can't talk alot about what goes on here, I'll try the best I can to answer any questions you might have about Iraqis, Islam, the military and the war. While I'm not a subject matter expert, I'm experiencing day to day what you read about in the paper. It's just that the paper doesn't always capture the picture the way it really was. So dig deep, think hard, and ask away.
SGT Jenny
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