Sometimes in reporting I'll take random notes of details with the hope of sprinkling them into a story, but mostly they stay in my notebook. While reporting over the last week or hanging out with some Seabees, marines and a few soldiers I scribbled short lists of stuff they had with them in their pockets, rucksacks and stuffed in the corners of an MRAP.
Nothing came of the notes, but here's my list:
Stridex pads
Maxim magazine
A commemorative Operation Iraqi Freedom mug
Protein powder
Oil of Olay
Jolly Ranchers
A creased stained copy of a wife's college biography
Peanut M&Ms
A folded white handkerchief with five pictures of a week-old baby girl he's never held Pirated copy of the movie 300
Divorce papers
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Ventura County Star Staff Writer Scott Hadly and freelance photographer James Lee Jeffreys will spend the month of July embedded with US troops in Iraq’s Anbar province. Hadly and Jeffreys will spend much of their time with Seabees from Port Hueneme’s Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3, who are stationed at Camp Ramadi but working throughout the province. Scott will use this blog to discuss his personal experiences as an embedded reporter.
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be safe scott. really enjoying your blog. i felt the same as your family when my husband richard went to iraq to take photos of Abu Grahib.
be safe scott. really enjoying your blog. i felt the same as your family when my husband richard went to iraq to take photos.
Scott: Did you ever read the Tim O'Brien book,
"The Things They Carried" about soliers in Viet Nam and what they carried in both issued equipment and personal items. Although the O'Brien books was very well written, there is a smiliarity with your title and list of items.
Sometimes anonymous lists speak for themselves. At least the internet gives us somewhere to put them.
Take care Scott, and keep up the good work.
Thanks. Perfect example of why we embed reporters. Good luck telling their story and safe travels. Semper Fidelis.