A soldier from Pocatello, Idaho told me that he’s looking forward to going home to assistant coach his youngest son’s baseball team. He said that his oldest son is going to Cooperstown.
We got to talking about livestock, somehow, and he shook his head at the sorry state of beef cattle here in Iraq. “I haven’t seen any beef cattle” he said, exaggerating, meaning that he hasn’t seen any up to his standards. “I saw some wondering around Sulaymaniyah, eating garbage out of garbage cans. They wouldn’t know grain fed beef if they tasted one” he said, warming to the subject. “Just like the chow hall’s motto. ‘I never saw a piece of meat I didn’t overcook.’ They can have this frickin’ country”.
I guess he’s ready to come home.
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