QUOTES OF THE DAY II
Going home
These quotes come from "Good night Fallujah: 'Raider' starts for home" a story by the Christian Science Monitor's superb Iraq journalist Scott Peterson. Peterson writes about U.S. Marines of the First Light Armored Reconnaissance, Charlie Company, who have been stationed in Fallujah since November. Come this April, insha'allah, they will be on a flight for Camp Pendleton, California--and home.
Fallujah was the best of times and the worst of times; the most exciting, the most eventful and extraordinary; and the most scary, most miserable, most death-defying...I feel like [Fallujah] was the pinnacle of my existence - that nothing I will ever do will be like what I have done.
-- Cpl. Christopher DeBlanc
The more I think about it, the worse my dreams will be.
-- Navy Corpsman Nick "Doc" Navarrette
[T]he smells - that's what I hate about this place. There are only two smells: smoke or death, one or the other.
-- Lance Cpl. Jeff Merbs
I'm looking forward to the simple life. Getting home, getting a house with a porch and a rocking chair, and cleaning my shotgun all day.
-- Cpl. Tony Milholin
(Thanks to reader Ron G.)