https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q en-us 2023-01-30 18:14:56 UTC 2023-05-04 16:23:24 UTC hello@padlet.com kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2463427190 Smithson, Ryan. Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI. HarperCollins, 2009]]> 2023-01-31 17:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2463427190 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555988408 The attack on the Twin Towers inspires Ryan Smithson to join the military]]> 2023-04-16 20:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555988408 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555988773 Ryan goes to basic training]]> 2023-04-16 20:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555988773 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555989211 Ryan returns from basic training and talks with his girlfriend (Heather) about getting married. on that same day Ryan receives a call asking if he's ready for deployment]]> 2023-04-16 20:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555989211 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555989386 Ryan marries Heather]]> 2023-04-16 20:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555989386 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555989974 While Ryan was eating, he thought he saw a bird flying overhead but it was actually a mortar]]> 2023-04-16 20:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555989974 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555990087 Ryan deploys]]> 2023-04-16 20:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555990087 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555990364 Ryan arrives in Iraq, where children were begging him for food on the sides of the roads]]> 2023-04-16 20:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555990364 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555990658 Start of the Iraq War]]> 2023-04-16 20:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555990658 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555991013 An elementary school in North Carolina writes Ryan and his platoon letters]]> 2023-04-16 20:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555991013 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555991502 Ryan gets a 2 week leave]]> 2023-04-16 20:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555991502 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555991627 Ryan starts college]]> 2023-04-16 20:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555991627 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555992038 Ryan leaves Kuwait to go back home]]> 2023-04-16 20:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555992038 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555992530 Ryan Smithson publishes the book titled, "Ghosts of War"]]> 2023-04-16 20:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2555992530 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556012417 Sergeant Conklin dies from an IED (pg. 212)]]> 2023-04-16 21:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556012417 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556014220 Ryan gets wrongly marked as AWOL for not following an order.
"i'm given orders, but i'm not notified. And then i'm reported AWOL for not following them" (pg. 47)]]> 2023-04-16 21:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556014220 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556014709 Ryan and his squad are tasked with scavenging destroyed humvees for parts.
"Our task: scrounge for parts, armor mostly" (pg. 115)]]> 2023-04-16 21:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556014709 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556015252 Ryan returns to Kuwait]]> 2023-04-16 21:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556015252 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556015530 Ryan befriends a bird and names it Jerkface.
"Jerkface is a small grayish brown bird" (pg. 192)]]> 2023-04-16 21:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556015530 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556016696 Ryan hits a cow with his humvee out of anger
"I wait for her blood to spatter out of her nose and across my thick windshield. I wait to smack into her and feel my humvee spin out of control" (pg. 252) ]]> 2023-04-16 21:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556016696 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556017563 Ryan thinks about shooting the children and letting them bleed out.
"i'll give 'em a brain full of 5.56 ... Aim low, maybe i'll get 'em in the stomach and they'll suffer some before they bleed out" (pg. 76)]]> 2023-04-16 21:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556017563 kovalzac000 https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556019813 Ryan was so stressed during the war that he was thinking about murdering children]]> 2023-04-16 21:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kovalzac000/wqc47cyntgprql4q/wish/2556019813