[Tommy Röhs]

Författaren beskriver en tuff, ofta brutal verklighet som ligger långt borta från TV och
tidningsrapporterna. Men det finns också humor här, mycket humor.
 
Boken känns ibland som en hög med lumpar historier, vilken på sätt och vis den
faktiskt är. Stora delar av boken är baserad på de korta inläggen Buzzel skrev
ned på sin BLOG om de små och stora händelserna i hans liv i Iraq.


utdrag från boken:
"Since volleyboll court was such a hit, they decided to place these huge, heavy-duty industrial
bright-as-fuck night-lights around the court so the soldiers could enjoy some night volleyball.
I swear to God they must have gotten these lights shipped to us from Yankee Stadium or some shit
like that because as I said these lights were bright as fuck.

One night, I was sitting down on my desert-camo lawn chair that I had bought at the PX for
seven bucks right outside my conex front door with my porch light off, of course, enjoying
a Miami-brand cigarette, staring up at the stars over Mosul, when the Hajjis decided to get
in on the game, and they keyed in on those lights and volleyed a bunch of mortars to the area
around the volleyball court, which was a little more that 50 meters or so away from where I
was sitting enjoying my smoke. About a half dozen soldiers from my company recived Purple
Hearts while playing volleyboll that night.

(Q: How'd did you get your Purple Heart? A: Playing volleyboll in Iraq)

Nobody was severly wounded or anything like that, thank God.
Just minor shrapbel wounds to various parts of the body. No meat tags were used to identify
any of the volleyball players.
Needless to say, night volleyball was cancelled until further notice after that.

My War - sidan 121-122



Boken känns bitvis lite tjatig och tappar ibland sitt fokus, men det är ändå en
mycket läsvärd bok om en soldats upplevelser i krigets Iraq.
så betyget blir fyra på en fem gradig skala.

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