Laughter Best Medicine in Iraq ; Ribbing and Practical Jokes Help Get Camp Striker Joes Through War
The Washington Times › April 23, 2007
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The "Hispanic Titanic" walks toward a reporter along a mud- covered gravel pathway, flicking his head repeatedly to one side, elbow by his head, one eye twitching.
"Hey, you know any people up there in Congress?" he asks. "In Washington? Tell them that I'm, you know" - twitch, twitch - "that I need to get out of here," he says, cracking up Sgt. Maj. Charles E. Stanley, one of the few soldiers here who does not have a nickname.See the full content of this document
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Laughter Best Medicine in Iraq ; Ribbing and Practical Jokes Help Get Camp Striker Joes Through War
Ribbing one another is largely what keeps these soldiers going, helping them to laugh through the tough times, when buddies die or during the tedium of living here at Camp Striker outside Baghdad, where the cement w...
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