# Good letter from a marine in Iraq **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 7, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577 "2006-10-07T13:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/1 "2006-10-07T13:07:01Z")
[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html) A pretty good look at a view on the war, from someone actually going through the war…not a TV camera ---
**Author:** ![Freek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/freek/32/7357_2.png) [@Freek](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Freek)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/2 "2006-10-07T13:21:12Z")
summed it up better then i ever could have … that applies to exactly the same for every branch not just marines. wow just when you think you’ve forgten a lot of things better left forgotten a letter like that can snap them right back in the open. ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/3 "2006-10-07T13:32:50Z")
> Best Chuck Norris Moment — 13 May. Bad Guys arrived at the government center in a small town to kidnap the mayor, since they have a problem with any form of government that does not include regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the Bad Guys put down his machine gun so that he could tie the mayor’s hands. The mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machine gun and drill five of the Bad Guys. The other two ran away. One of the dead Bad Guys was on our top twenty wanted list. Like they say, you can’t fight City Hall. Loved that part. :tup: to not taking shit. ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/4 "2006-10-08T07:02:10Z")
cliffs? Nice quote JEG… sweet shit. ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/5 "2006-10-08T07:31:36Z")
lol no cliffs just read it, its a soldiers account on little things, best of/worst of instances etc it took all of 5 mins to read I mean come on! here is my fav quote “Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O’Reilly” ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/6 "2006-10-08T07:32:35Z")
k… reading now. 😢 Here : :crap: :beer2: :popo: ? ---
**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/7 "2006-10-08T07:36:41Z")
Fantastic letter and moving. > Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O’Reilly. ---
**Author:** ![Freek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/freek/32/7357_2.png) [@Freek](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Freek)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/8 "2006-10-08T07:55:15Z")
> Worst Smell — Porta-johns in 120-degree heat — and that’s 120 degrees outside of the porta-john. i diagree… baghdad’s 200 year old meat market was the worst smell … 200 years of dead anaimal parts left to rot in 120 degree heat. then drying to a powder from them trying to burn it and breathing it in. ---
**Author:** ![somedude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@somedude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/somedude)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-letter-from-a-marine-in-iraq/18577/9 "2006-10-08T07:57:30Z")
the ending almost brought a tear to my eye 😢