A friend passed on to me a link to this pamphlet produced by the US War and Navy Departments during World War II. It's somewhat entertaining and occasionally bigoted in its views/lessons on life.
I couldn't help but hear a voice like Sam Elliot, John Wayne, or George C. Scott when I was reading it. The Arabic in the back is accurate as far as I can tell. As the pamphlet says, it's an Iraqi dialect so I don't know some of it as I was exposed to an (urban) Egyptian dialect.
Some of the foregin policy/cultural interaction guidelines would be helpful to our troops in the Middle East even today.
August 9 - "L.T.'s Theory of Pets"
14 years ago
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"What is this Iraq?" That's hilarious. I love stuff like this. Maybe I'm going to have to do some searching of the internet to find cool things like this to share on my blog.
I could see what you mean about hearing one of those old "war voices" as I read through the guide. Great stuff, man.
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