21 December, 2006

Letter From Young Marine Due to Return to Iraq in April


link to letter

Philip Martin has been a Marine for 2 years. He is in the infantry (a "grunt"), and spent 7 months in the al-Anbar province of Iraq. He went on more than 180 combat patrols in and outside of the city of Fallujah, where he was hit with 2 IEDs (luckily never injured) and was involved in a number of firefights. He is currently stationed in Twentynine Palms, CA, and due to return to Iraq for a second deployment in April 2007. He is 21-years-old.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting. I know there's a book project going on at www.literaryprojects.com looking for letters and such to complete a book. I wonder if this would be appropriate.

Keep up the blog!