Today’s New York Times carries a reprinted post from Home Fires, a blog that carries writing by military men and women who have recently returned to the U.S. from foreign deployments. The writer of the Times piece is a fellow named Roman Skaskiw and his description of the mind numbing bureaucracy that precedes a battlefield deployment is so darkly funny that I was in fact reminded of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I was further delighted to discover tht Mr. Skaskiw lives in Iowa City. Perhaps I will meet him one of these days. Happy reading!
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 