What better light show could any young soldier ever hope for?
Of course, I foolishly said things like that out loud. So they transfered me to a job checking the parking meters on the main drag in Fallujah. Here I am looking for my ticket book to give this IED laden truck a ticket for illegal parking. Back in the day, we would have blown it to hell when it drove up but by the time this picture was taken, we’d been restricted to issuing parking tickets, unless the bomb went off, in which case we’d ask around to see if any of the neighbors (who might still be alive) had seen anything suspicious earlier. Personally I liked it a lot better when my choices were acid or nukes.
