Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox

An anthology of stories from American servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan from the military blog launched by the creator of Doonesbury. In 2006, Gary Trudeau launched The Sandbox, an online forum where service members in could share their stories with readers at home. In hundreds of compelling posts, soldiers wrote movingly of their day-to-day lives, of their mission, and of the drama that unfolds daily around them. A dog adopts a unit on patrol in Baghdad and guards its flank; a soldier chro