Those of you who read the twins' blog know that Maddy has been awaiting the war rather, um, eagerly. Well, here it is and she has paid no attention. Coverage is on 24 hours a day here. Our sleep cycles are disrupted because it is night there when it is day here and vice versa. Yet Maddy has watched not a moment.
Tonight, while it is bright day in Iraq, we have the clearest war pictures yet. Troops surrounding Umm Qasr are on their bellies being shot at by Iraqis. Tanks have rolled in to give the troops cover. Maddy chatters on obliviously.
Two hours into it, in an effort to at least shush her, I point and say "there, see that building? The Iraqis are in there."
"There are Iraqis there?" she asks incredulously.
"What did you think?"
"Isn't this practice?"
"No, this is the war."
"How did the reporters get there? There were no reporters in the Civil War." Now, you may have thought a more appropos comment to be "there were no reporters in the Gulf War" but Maddy focusses as only she can.
"Every unit has reporters with them. We've been watching the war for three days now."
"Oh, NOW I get it!"
Posted by Justene Adamec at March 22, 2003 11:41 PMRemember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU.
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