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More About Salam Pax. U.S. Military Families' Letters

What is the war like for U.S. military families? See An Army Family Journal (MSNBC). Touching letters from families of servicemen. This journal is by Tamara, whose husband Noel is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division, deployed to Kuwait. Read these many letters responding to Tamara. These sites also link to many military blogs and wives.

More by Salam Pax today (again, I edited his grammar and spelling):

Thursday, March 20, 1:23 pm

Now that was really unexpected. When the sirens went on we thought we will get bombs by the tom load dropped on us but nothing happened, at least in the part of the city where I lived. Anti-aircraft guns could be heard for a while but they stopped too after a while and then the all-clear siren came.

Today in the morning I went with my father for a ride around Baghdad and there was nothing different from yesterday. There is no curfew and cars can be seen speeding to places here and there. Shops are closed. Only some bakeries are open and of course the Ba’ath Party Centers. There are more Ba’ath people in the streets and they have more weapons. No army in the streets. We obviously still have electricity, phones are still working and we got to phone calls from abroad so the international lines are still working. Water is still running.

The English-speaking radio station on FM is now replaced by the Arabic languge state radio program broadcasting on the same wavelength. I just say that because last night just as the BBC was broadcasting from Baghdad (yes, we have put up the satellite dish again), their news ticker (or whatever you call that red band down there) said that the Iraqi state radio has been taken over by US broadcast. We watched Saddam’s speech this morning. He’s got verse in it!!

Others who write from Baghdad: Net users offer glimpse of life in Iraq (MSNBC).

Will Femia talks about how several people questioned if Salam Pax is really whom he says he is. He tells the story behind Salam, an architectural engineer. Says that "several bloggers [offered] testimony to Salam’s authenticity." See Femia's "Weblog Central" for details. I realize now what the relationship is between many of those most widely read bloggers---they are columnists for MSNBC! MSNBC seems to get mainly pro-war, Republican columnists. There go claims about the "liberal" media!