Bibliophiles inside the wire

A Very Defiant Duckling Named Ender writes “Bibliophiles inside the wire, from the LA Times. At an Iraq camp nicknamed Mortaritaville, American warriors young and old install a library near book lovers’ sacred ground.
A few weeks earlier, about 3,000 volumes had been shipped out of Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, with 7,000 more following shortly thereafter. The two loads made up the core collection of a library intended for use by the 25,000 service personnel and civilian workers stationed at Camp Anaconda, and later, when they leave, by Iraqis in the nearby city of Balad, who have expressed a keen interest in acquiring whatever reading material is available to them.”

April 25, 2006 by Uncategorized 0

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