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…brick shithouse? Looks like cow turds, made into bricks, forming a house. I’ve
always wondered what it meant to be built like one. Took this picture in Iraq and thought I’d share.
Type your comment here. the huts are not so bad. hell no mortgage. no payments. livin cheap. the civilians living in those huts are luckier than the Korean War Marines ; who had to chip shallow fox holes in the forzen ground. they had beeen exposed to the chill factor wind swept mountains. their canteen water froze. thousands of Chinese, packs of them would skirmish bugle attack over run and capture the wounded Marines. u can still build a log cabin or an adobe brick home in America. a house made of mud is not as bad as being homeless. a mud hut must be a luxuary in a war zone. notice ‘ they are near a water source. the mud hut could serve as a listening post for the building across the field. the palm trees offer a food source and shade. not too bad on a peasants budget in war.
No, I’m quite sure people don’t live in them, but I don’t know exactly what they’re there for.
Hello Midnight, And yes I do believe that would be considered a Proverbial Brick Shithouse.
And Thank God its Christmas in Dixie, Snowing in the Pines, Merry Christmas from Dixie to everyone tonight……
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I saw your site listed on 9rules
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Im in the Air Force :)
This is the first time I visit this marine blog. We’re living here in a pretty safe country, Belgium, very far away from what’s going on in Iraq.
We’re quite curious how you, guys, feel about this war and why you, Americans are in there.
“more than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness, without these qualities life will be violent, and all will be lost”
The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin (1940)
Those are not huts. They are piles of cowdung being stored as a building material and cooking fuel. (Makes a very nice, smokeless fire, much like charcoal).
Thanks for the explanation, Murray.
May I take issue with the chap at blog item 6 above Johan; he askes why Americans are in Iraq. May I intercede as a Brit and answer the question?
Johan, look to your own national recent history, when twice in 20 years, 1914 and 1939 when Britain went to the aid of Belgium. You write from a free Belgium because of others efforts. ( America, Britain her commonwealth allies, and, France,)
There are more British soldiers buried in Belgium than anywhere else on earth. Go and look at the British cemeteries around Ypres and the salient, read some of the grave stones.( almost a million of them) Then think!… and perhaps rethink your question?
So, you’re telling me that people live in that?