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Posted by Jeff Barnett on March 18th, 2006

My third post is now live on the NYT Frontlines blog. I describe the city of Fallujah.



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jdb0857
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March 18th, 2006 at 9:20 am

Your best post yet. Great read. Good to know you are safe. Keep up the good work. All of the troops are in our prayers.

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John Sanders
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March 18th, 2006 at 4:22 pm

Interesting stuff- nice to see something not from a reporter.

Re garbage- I take dog poop off my lawn at home too. I’m not sure that is too relevant in Falluja, though. My town hasn’t been in a war; maybe if it had I wouldn’t have the same attitude to garbage. It might actually seem irrelevant, in the scheme of things. Of course, maybe your town has been through this before and held up well. If so, congrats.

John Sanders.

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Tab
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March 19th, 2006 at 11:30 am

I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU to you for your service. THANK YOU.

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Spaceant
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March 20th, 2006 at 9:49 pm

I enjoyed reading your latest post. I’m pleased to see you are so observant of your surroundings and that you are continuing to maintain your positive outlook under conditions that many would find depressing, if not overwhelming. Your passion must be admired. I pray that you will return home unscathed.

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MP 1975
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March 21st, 2006 at 5:05 am

I didn’t get a chance to see your posting on with the NY Times, but I almost see it based upon your previous general but colorfull descriptions of the Iraq country side.

Fallujah, but for the grace of the Marines and U.S Army could of been just a pile of rocks. Instead of leveling it over a year ago in the conflict it was decided to minimize colateral damage for its citizens and clean out the terrorist that chose to stay by going house by house to remove them by force. We paid a pretty good price in battle casualities so its citizens could return and build a new future and have the time to get a new start in a direction of their choice.

So it must be a beautifull place with the occupants glad to have their neighborhood rid of the criminal and terrorist element and everyone working collectively to fix it up and make it a postive place to raise kids. I am sure there is more work to do, but by now it must be showing real signs of the price we paid for it.