looney82

When I was in Abu Ghraib (the city proper and the outlying farms) my platoon was tasked with pulling security on an old monument that was being rebuilt by an Iraqi company. Some archaeologists came out to do a survey and were telling us how they'd been going to the more secure areas of Iraq to help rebuild some of the history. We're not trying to erase it, and war sucks for history.

So I went in about 3 and a half years ago to my local Build-A-Bear because I was deploying to Iraq again and my wife was pregnant with my daughter. I got a monkey for my daughter with a little sound thing that I recorded. The only people in the whole place were me and the girl that built her monkey. She still had me do all the same stuff as everyone else I've ever seen, all the jumping jacks and push ups. Is that normal? I felt like a goofball doing all that stuff in a pretty empty store for just one person.

I listened to an epidose of This American Life recently that had excerpts from a book about Chernobyl. When I heard the first-hand accounts of people that had to deal with it, there was a lot of misinformation and straight up lies from the government. Being that you live in the States, how trusting are you of our government?

Deal. If I join the Australian Army, the random Russian-American girl from Reddit is going with me.

Great response. I'm a soldier in the US Army. I couldn't imagine hiding something like that from our citizens. It's become something I've thought about a lot lately.