The Midnight Hour

Rapture has written an excellent summary of the past year’s goings-on in The Hushed Casket (THX) on his blog
http://rapture.hushedcasket.com/08/29/2006/4_years_of_a_hushed_casket

THX is a community of friends and gamers based in Huntsville, AL. I co-founded the group at UAH in 2002 with FoulBreed as a way to promote Halo LANning. It has since evolved into a large […]

As we rode the bus from March Air Reserve Base back to Camp Pendleton my friend Grant remarked, “You know, I don’t want to speak too soon, but it’s almost like I never left.” I agreed. I had been leisurely gazing at the southern California landscape for no more than ten minutes, but the desert […]

“RPG!!!” was the first thing I heard. The three staccato letters emanated in a flurry of excitement and confusion from my turret gunner. The rocket had sailed about three feet over the top of our HMMWV, actually coming closer to his head than the truck. It benignly exploded in mid-air on the other […]

And I thought my first trip to Baghdad was cosmopolitan! I am writing this from the internet cafe in the American Embassy in Baghdad. One of my Marines and I have some business to take care of here, so we have been “stuck” here for a few days. It’s quite a dreadful predicament. Besides having […]