Forever War Class Blog #3

Right now in Forever War Filkin is walking the streets of Ramadi and they stop off at one of Saddam's palaces. I've had close relatives and friends who've been over in the middle eastern war who have also talked about visiting some of his palaces so it was interesting to read about because he had so many palaces I've always wondered when does he have the time to stay at these places? But this story finally had some comedy to it (at least it seemed comical coming from a story like this) One of the officers is blond and in the middle east blonds are a rarity, so they had an auction for the officer and while the captain is yelling at the Iraqi's to bid on her, the remaining officers went around to the Iraqi's house and rounded up all their guns, then they just ended the auction and took off. Although they were reprimanded, the story was comical because it worked. My reaction to this was just to laugh because in a story that involves such horrific violence, this small story was a funny one. Picturing all the Iraqi civilians coming running out of their houses just falling over for this beautiful blond officer while the American soldiers round up their artillery is something that I could envision in a movie about this book.