{"id":124,"date":"2004-05-05T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=124"},"modified":"2004-05-05T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T16:41:24","slug":"where-you-been-spending-your-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Where you been spending your nights?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had my second brush with the realism of the war in Iraq. A friend of a friend of a brother of Most-Honoured Girlfriend is a soldier in the USMC. He shipped off last weekend and as a send-off, he asked if we could all get together and play LAN games at the good ol’ iColiseum<\/a>*.<\/p>\n

I could not think of an easier or more pleasant way to support our troops than that. I thought he might be a little uncomfortable playing Battlefield: Vietnam and the like. After all, the situation in Iraq is now being compared to Vietnam, but Iraq’s really nothing like this<\/a> (Boing Boing gave this to Czelticgirl gave it to me).<\/p>\n

And seeing as war won’t be just a simulation for him much longer I thought it might bring up apprehension he was trying to avoid for the evening, but he seemed in good spirits when all was through.<\/p>\n

Come home safe, Matt, and thank you.<\/p>\n

* – this is a better plug for you, Patrick. And I’m happy to do it. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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