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Technology is amazing. Since the dawn of digital imagery, man has been able to capture amazing footage from around the world. For the most part it is used for educational and informative issues. It also has greatly enhanced more seedy industries such as pornography.
However, since the US has gone to war I've been seeing more and more footage of events in Iraq. Obviously it doesn't tell the whole story, but each clip I see brings the events in Iraq more closer to home.
Baghdad, Iraq isn't some wasteland desert. It's a bustling city holding millions and millions of people. They are just like me and you. They wake up in the morning, go to work, eat out for lunch, come home to their wives and children, go to bed. Then wake up the next morning to do it all over again.
Now imagine on your way to work you heard a thunderous noise. You look up and see that's it's not a storm brewing because the skies are clear blue. But rather it's a mortar shell that just landed dead in the middle of the street for the sole purpose of death and destruction. You might bitch about being late because there was an idiot who caused an accident on the road, but daily citizens of Baghdad have to tell their bosses how they are late because they were ditching mortar shells and militant automatic fire.
The following video was an amazing close call of an ambush that a US military convoy escaped while driving through the busy streets of Iraq. I watched the video a few times. At first I felt deeply for the US soldiers. But as I saw it the fourth time my heart felt for the Iraqi citizens. These people were running for their lives. And they have to live in that fear everyday.
God Bless America. And God...don't forget to Bless Iraq.
However, since the US has gone to war I've been seeing more and more footage of events in Iraq. Obviously it doesn't tell the whole story, but each clip I see brings the events in Iraq more closer to home.
Baghdad, Iraq isn't some wasteland desert. It's a bustling city holding millions and millions of people. They are just like me and you. They wake up in the morning, go to work, eat out for lunch, come home to their wives and children, go to bed. Then wake up the next morning to do it all over again.
Now imagine on your way to work you heard a thunderous noise. You look up and see that's it's not a storm brewing because the skies are clear blue. But rather it's a mortar shell that just landed dead in the middle of the street for the sole purpose of death and destruction. You might bitch about being late because there was an idiot who caused an accident on the road, but daily citizens of Baghdad have to tell their bosses how they are late because they were ditching mortar shells and militant automatic fire.
The following video was an amazing close call of an ambush that a US military convoy escaped while driving through the busy streets of Iraq. I watched the video a few times. At first I felt deeply for the US soldiers. But as I saw it the fourth time my heart felt for the Iraqi citizens. These people were running for their lives. And they have to live in that fear everyday.
God Bless America. And God...don't forget to Bless Iraq.
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