Ever try typing with your middle finger tightly wrapped to staunch bleeding? Not much fun, I can assure you. Ahhh, the perils of PC repair. Why do they leave solder points so damn sharp? Don’t they know blood is highly corrosive and therefore not wisely rubbed all over sensitive electronic components? Stupid chinese.
I realize our travels in Iraq are a war of liberation and all that but I dearly miss the old signs from wars gone by. Like Admiral Halsey’s sign from WWII which I posted in this very location last year. Or the soon-to-be-erected “Welcome to Baghdad. Courtesy of the 3d ID and 1st MEF.”
Well, finally I’ve heard about one. Simple and unassuming as befits the great nation that erected it. You ought to read the article because it’s great but here’s what the sign said:
We crossed the checkpoint – manned by a lone British outpost whose guard was ecstatic when given a cold Coke – into the barely noticeable DMZ (zigzag obstacle course through a sand berm), and then, somewhat anticlimactically, we found ourselves in Iraq. The only sign of the country is a cardboard sign hammered to a stake in the ground, handwritten:
“WELCOME TO IRAQ. 4th MARINE DIVISION.”
Goddamn. We rule.