Borch, Fred L. "The Forever War." The Journal of Military History 73.4 (2009): 1395-399. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 22 Oct. 2010.

                   This journal entrée talks about a book entitled “The Forever War” by Dexter Filkins. It is about the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is about the people, not only the soldiers, but the civilians as well. It is none the less about life in Iraq and Afghanistan through the eyes of an individual who experienced it first hand, both living and working in the fore front. Filkins did many interviews during his time in Iraq and he shares those in this book as well. This article and book are going to help me piece my paper together well. I am looking deeper into the civilian’s lives because I feel like that was a major focus in Huze’s play. He did not only emphasize on the soldiers experiences but also in the aftermath of war on the civilians in Iraq and the things they had to cope and deal with. I plan to dig deeper to understand Huze’s feelings of the troops being in Iraq according to his monologues as well.

           

Among The War: Seeing The Iraq War through Three Journalistic Vantage Points

Andrew M. Lindner

Social Problems
Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 2009), pp. 21-48
(article consists of 28 pages)

Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40264270

This article talks about the journalists who have been “embedded” in Iraq in order to report straight from the military units. It is about their failure to adequately report upon the effects of the war on Iraqi civilians. Instead the reporters spent much of their time over emphasizing the lives of the troops. This article has relevance for my paper because I believe I enjoyed Sean Huze’s monologues so much due to the fact that he not only shared how the troops were dealing but also how the civilians were living. He talked a lot about the loss of family members for many of them, the willingness to help the troops by giving food and water, and the welcoming arms they offered during war times. I plan to use this article to look deeper into the reasons behind such little emphasis on the civilians in this war, and why exactly that is being promoted.