scoutpilot
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073060/Ghost-Towns-The-surreal-sight-abandoned-U-S-bases-Iraq-troops-return-home-thousands.html
I find this really sad, in a way. For many of us, the world we constructed there was a second home we came to know as our own. It feels as though the memories and conflicting feelings about that strange outpost on the edge of humanity are harder to process in its absence. Its continued existence somehow provided an anchor for a way of life that was transient, both in the deployment sense and in the mortal sense, and gave us a vessel for the memories that defined our experience. As I see it end, it almost feels like a distant dream.
Note: The "tanks" they show rusting are not American, nor are they tanks. That's old Warsaw Pact Iraqi equipment (Soviet 2S3 SP Artillery) that has been scrapped since the invasion.
I find this really sad, in a way. For many of us, the world we constructed there was a second home we came to know as our own. It feels as though the memories and conflicting feelings about that strange outpost on the edge of humanity are harder to process in its absence. Its continued existence somehow provided an anchor for a way of life that was transient, both in the deployment sense and in the mortal sense, and gave us a vessel for the memories that defined our experience. As I see it end, it almost feels like a distant dream.
Note: The "tanks" they show rusting are not American, nor are they tanks. That's old Warsaw Pact Iraqi equipment (Soviet 2S3 SP Artillery) that has been scrapped since the invasion.
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