Let's see something different

Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqEgd3InILA is a link to a youtube video that is simply of American troops returning fire. I find this extremely interesting because watching it I don't have to deal with any political views for or against the war, there are no statistics to be disputed, and I'm not watching any government officials. Instead, this is simply what it looks like when the military comes through your neighborhood. It's truly terrifying to look at it both from the point of a soldier (and its almost impossible to see what's being fired at) or from the point of one of the people whose house they must be on top of.

For a long time I've been interested in military engineers and construction workers. This http://warisboring.com/?p=256 is a link to a short article detailing some of what the Army Engineers have been doing while in Iraq. I personally think it's important for people to remember that not everything is bad and that there are parts of the military working hard not only to fix what has been damaged by war but to improve the infrastructure above what it had originally been.