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Icon Experiment in Cryonics

Lieutenant K uses a fictional experiment to express some of his thoughts about war and returning home from it.

To: The Cryonics Institute 

From: Lieutenant K

To whom it

 
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1/28/2006 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Weather and War

The light was dim this morning behind a sunny but cloudy sky that had the consistency of wax paper covering the orb of the sun. To the west the horizon was heavy with grey and black bullying clouds

 
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1/24/2006 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Fallen Angel

LT K describes the loss of his mother during his deployment to Iraq

The following post is a bit more personal than I ever intended for this blog, but many family and friends have asked for

 
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1/19/2006 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon On Children

LT K discusses children and the effects they have on his attitude

 

 
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1/17/2006 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Fallen Warrior

LT K pays tribute to a fallen soldier he knew well.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. 

--Kahlil Gibran

These

 
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1/12/2006 9:19:00 PM  

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Icon The Glass Factory

LT K describes a recent attack in the Al Anbar Province

A splash of pastel. That’s the way to describe the sky as I just walked back from my hooch over to the office - as if some arti

 
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1/5/2006 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Administrative Entry.

Administrative entry

You may notice the new banner provided by Milblogging.com and

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1/2/2006 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon 2006: Year of the Eternal Optimist

LT K talks about optimism as a way of life and a state of mind

My Battalion had a good year in 2005. We haven’t lost a single soldier. We have lost fellow soldiers in our Brigade, and

 
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12/31/2005 12:00:00 AM  

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Icon Mortality Strikes

LT K describes a soldier who has a close call with a rocket, and with his own mortality

A friend of mine had a very close call the other day. I call him a friend, because when you work with

 
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12/29/2005 11:07:00 PM  

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Icon Living the Life

LT K describes a day in the Al Anbar Province

What is it like in the Al Anbar Province today? Well, it 's quiet. The base is still an eyesore – a sandbag impressionistic painting done

 
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12/26/2005 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Christmas in Al Anbar

Life doesn’t give you time-outs. The clock doesn’t stop so that you can better deal with whatever hardships or difficulties you may be experiencing. Likewise, war doesn’t screech

 
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12/21/2005 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon The Farm

LT K describes a mission he went on to look for an Al Qaeda weapons cache

As a Signal Officer, I am not required to leave the base everyday on combat missions. I spent time as an enlisted s

 
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12/19/2005 5:39:00 AM  

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Icon The Future Begins Now

LT K talks about the December 15th national elections in Iraq

For my part, the election went great. Up here in the Al Anbar Province not a whole lot of people like to get out and vote. Repo

 
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12/15/2005 8:59:00 PM  

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LT K talks about being nominated for Milblog award

I wanted to take a moment and once again thank all my readers for their support, and for their comments. I hava had a few technical proble

 
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12/9/2005 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Right Now

LT K talks about what some soldiers are doig right now in Iraq.

Right now there’s a Private sitting at a desk in a room lit by lamps. It’s 2 a.m. and he’s on radio watch.

 
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10/18/2010 3:33:23 PM  

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Icon Golden Years

A description of the Iraqi conflict from the perspective of an old soldier.

I am old. The war has been over for years and I haven’t been a soldier for a long time. It’s the year

 
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12/2/2005 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Emergency Leave

LT K describes going home for emergency leave, then returning to his base in Iraq.

Emergency Leave

During a year in the desert, most soldiers have the opportunity to take two

 
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11/26/2005 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon We Support You- Part II

Lieutenant K describes the way soldiers feel about support from home.

Four years later, here we still stand and fight, cycling back to America across the jet stream, across the ocean, to he

 
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11/15/2005 12:00:00 AM  

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Icon A Soldier's Story

A "fictional" account of an IED attack

“Listen to me,” says LT X as he pulls his duffel bag from the trunk and sets it on the ground at his feet, “I’ll be

 
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11/8/2005 8:59:00 PM  

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Icon Modern Warfare

Lieutenant K describes a mission in Iraq.

It was one of those days, in the midst of an 18 month deployment, when normalcy tries to seep into your psyche like a bad habit. The smoke and mirr

 
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11/2/2005 9:59:00 PM  

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Icon Laundry

Doing Laundry in Iraq

You may not think about soldiers doing laundry in Iraq. And I’m sure most of us here would love to think about it less. But you can only own so many pairs of soc

 
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10/28/2005 9:59:00 PM  

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Icon A Note from Lieutenant

A Note from Lieutenant K

I just wanted to thank readers for all the recent comments.

I personally receive and witness incredible support from family, friends, and people I've never

 
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10/25/2005 1:52:00 AM  

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Icon A Letter to the Republic for Which We Stand

A poetic "letter" from Lieutenant K to all Americans which shows the love he has for his country in an indirect way.

America, we remain your constant and faithful servants.

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10/16/2005 4:59:00 AM  

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Icon Slow Motion Ladder

A description of a mortar attack seen from a roof in Iraq.

We recently had a problem with one of our satellite dishes. Since I am in charge of communications, my section was responsible for

 
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10/13/2005 9:59:00 PM  

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Icon Flashbulb Thoughts

Lieutenant K desribes the way his mind spans across memories at night when he tries to sleep.

Sometimes I lay in bed at night, in stillness, after a long hard day, and my mind is like a shu

 
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10/8/2005 9:59:00 PM  

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Icon Fire In The Night

A description of soldiers in Iraq burning their trash and remembering campfires.

We burn a lot of things out here. 

There is a huge pit where we burn a lot of our trash. There

 
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10/2/2005 9:59:00 PM  

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Icon Xeriscape Base

Description of the land on a soldier's base in Iraq.

Xeriscape: A trademark used for a landscaping method that employs drought-resistant plants in an effort to conserve resources, especiall

 
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10/1/2005 9:59:00 PM  

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