Alexandrian Uprising
Last night around midnight I spoke with a friend who moved to Cairo in the fall to teach English. I hadn’t heard from him since...
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Manning the Dead Zone (Part IV...
To read the first part of this piece about guard duty on the Green Line click here AN ANTI-TANK gun exercise took place six weeks into...
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Part I of this piece is the August 4 entry CONSECUTIVE DAYS of sentry duty took their toll, especially when the shifts were every...
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The first part of this piece is the August 4 entry THE OTHER CONSCRIPTS in my outpost, many of whom had been stationed on the Green...
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(see Three Months in the Life of the Cypriot National Guard for a preface to this piece) IN THE CYPRIOT National Guard, all of the...
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The first part of this piece is the May 4 entry and the second part is the June 4 entry. 8. THE LAMP THE EPICENTER of the training...
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The first part of this piece is the May 4 entry. 3 GRIVAS AFTER ROLL CALL at morning lineup, a corporal announced that those who...
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(see the April 4 posting Three Months in the Life of the Cypriot National Guard for a preface to this piece) arphas...
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A Foreword PICK AT RANDOM a young man living in a nation that does not maintain conscription and, even if he is averse to violence and...
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