2006 Tour of Duty

Thursday, September 29, 2005

REMINISCENCING THE GOOD OLE DAYS

While talking to this farmer he begin talking of another time and place in his past when life was much simplier and things were different. We traded stories of record crop years and I listened as he shared his vision of the future.

posted by MSG Ronald C. Wegner @ 11:42 PM  

10 Comments:

  • At September 30, 2005 8:01 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Was the fellow thinking of the times before Saddam?

     

  • At September 30, 2005 11:27 AM, Blogger Suzie said…

    What did that vision include?

     

  • At October 01, 2005 5:30 AM, Blogger MSG Ronald C. Wegner said…

    Big plumb dates as the eye could see

     

  • At October 01, 2005 12:06 PM, Anonymous Mom said…

    I was thinking on the same wave link as anonymous. Did he refer to time pre-Saddam or in the last 30 yrs?

     

  • At October 03, 2005 7:28 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Just proves people everywhere have many of the same hopes and dreams...to bad we can't concentrate more on that. Keep up the good work, James and I really enjoy your site.
    Bo

     

  • At October 03, 2005 7:42 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    MSGT, I love your photos and comments, it is so nice to see just ordinary Iraqi rural life. I have a question if you might know the answer. I am taking an Arabic course here and my instructor is Palestinian. Today we were having a pre-Ramadan feast and got to talking about dates. She mentioned that there is some very specific type of date that ONLY grows naturally in Iraq, no where else. There is apparently some story about the Jews eating these dates to survive while in captivity in Babylon...would you have any idea what date she is talking about? She couldn't remember the exact name.
    Thanks so much...I rarely comment, but I read your blog a lot and often send your photos to the Washington Post in a weekly e-mail of positive news I send to show them there are things going on in Iraq other than car bombs!!

    Take care, Debbie K

     

  • At October 04, 2005 9:17 PM, Blogger Juliette said…

    Great site. Excellent photos!

     

  • At October 09, 2005 2:06 AM, Blogger MSG Ronald C. Wegner said…

    Debbie
    All the Iraqis I ask know nothing of the story you describe. Perhaps a little more information would be helpful. As you may or may not know all dates orginally came from Iraq.

     

  • At October 12, 2005 3:26 AM, Blogger MSG Ronald C. Wegner said…

    The vision was of a time when he was a young Sheik and had many wives to work in the field. Now he has only two donkeys and a few goats...

     

  • At October 13, 2005 7:55 AM, Blogger Suzie said…

    But I bet those two donkeys and those few goats don't talk back nearly as much as a bunch of wives!

     

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