FOB Marez, Mosul __ Yesterday was a brutal day here.
Tony and I went to the scene of a massive suicide car bombing that killed at least 10 Iraqi civilians. We were both amazed at the scale of the damage. I couldn’t believe the entire engine block from the suicide truck was actually thrown into a second story bedroom.
The scene was apocalyptic. There must have just been thousands of pieces of glass and metal flying through the air when that bomb went off.
I would have been content to have gone through life without seeing some of the graphic human toll I saw in the street yesterday.
But that is just the reality of what happens in Iraq.
Tony and I have both noticed Iraqis seem more stoic about death than we are. I’ve spoken to people who just had a colleague kidnapped or murdered and they talked about it almost matter of factly.
I asked an Iraqi interpreter for the Americans about this once.
He said that is just how life is here, and people really have no choice but to accept it and move on.
-- Sean Cockerham
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