As a personnel of the Armed Forces, military stories always fascinated me. As the iraq war continues, we see more and more blogs by soldiers who take part, sharing their stories. These are stories that are not filtered by the commercial media, but rather bringing you a more personal look on what war really is like

On Being Home by Derek McGee

There was a time, when a noise that didn’t belong was heard, people looked at me for some leadership, they wanted me to tell them where to go, and what to do; now they just look and think: who is the weirdo hyperventilating at the bar because a waitress dropped a tray.

You think that drinking will make things better, but it doesn’t. It lets the bad thoughts in. It lets the irrational thoughts in. I spent twenty minutes at a bar the other night, pretending to play a golf video game even though I didn’t have any quarters and I hate video games and I don’t play golf. I watched this little jerky computer-generated guy in funny clothes drive a few white pixels towards a flag.

In Singapore, we always talk about being prepared. But there are things that just cannot be prepared for, that we will never know unless we go through it ourselves.