calls from iraq...
oh man...i just got off the phone with my brother...he got half a day off for the first time since he's been there...i wish i could have recorded our conversation because then you could have better understood what im going to try and explain...he sounds like he's dead..there is no tone in his voice..its like a scared child and a bored college kid mixed up with a zombie..its just completely a warn out, not the person i know, full of scary life experience no one should have to go through sort of voice...it was really really scary to hear and he seems so different and dead that its heartbreaking...you live by the hour over there, not even day to day but hour to hour...constantly being aware..its not a job you can go home from, but a 24 hour 7 day a week job...god, i just cant get over his voice...
it doesnt seem like he's doing terrible though, i guess...he has ok livingin situation with 25 people living in the size of a living room and he has a dvd player he watches movies on and he had enough to eat and everything...but their mind is completely warped...god, it just so scary to hear...
he was like its pretty boring unless you go on night rades and go into people's houses knowing there are sergents (the iraq rebels they are trying to rid the country of) in there to arrest and you might get to kill a person...thats the only thing he had slight tone in..about killing someone and he seemed pumped over it..i guess that the is mind frame you have to be in though...i mean, he is in a war right?
it was hard to keep up the conversation b/c i knew he had told my parents all this info before and i knew nothing i said compared to what he is going through...here i am talking about meeting taylor hanson when he had to go worry about being killed by a road side bomb everyday...you just really put your life into perspective i guess...
it was a good wake up call though, im so excited that he called! i havent spoken with him since the day before he left for iraq...best 15 minutes of my week...i just really cant get over his voice though...it was bone chilling...
it doesnt seem like he's doing terrible though, i guess...he has ok livingin situation with 25 people living in the size of a living room and he has a dvd player he watches movies on and he had enough to eat and everything...but their mind is completely warped...god, it just so scary to hear...
he was like its pretty boring unless you go on night rades and go into people's houses knowing there are sergents (the iraq rebels they are trying to rid the country of) in there to arrest and you might get to kill a person...thats the only thing he had slight tone in..about killing someone and he seemed pumped over it..i guess that the is mind frame you have to be in though...i mean, he is in a war right?
it was hard to keep up the conversation b/c i knew he had told my parents all this info before and i knew nothing i said compared to what he is going through...here i am talking about meeting taylor hanson when he had to go worry about being killed by a road side bomb everyday...you just really put your life into perspective i guess...
it was a good wake up call though, im so excited that he called! i havent spoken with him since the day before he left for iraq...best 15 minutes of my week...i just really cant get over his voice though...it was bone chilling...