Tuesday, January 23, 2007

MY WINDOW ON THE WORLD


Back from Iraq and posting again. From September through December, this was the view from my quarters at Camp Victory.

The concrete barriers are "T" walls; foot-thick concrete blast barriers about 12 feet high. At the bottom is a Hesco barrier, 4 feet in diameter, about 4 feet high, and filled with sandbags. There were 2 Hesco barriers on each side of my trailer door; the passageway between the barriers and the "T" wall was only about 2 feet wide. Claustrophobic? Yes. Comforting? Yes.