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 Matt Runte talks about the war he and his unit prepared for, and the one they ended up fighting.
On Valentine's Day 2003, SSG Matt Runte deployed with his Combat Engineer unit to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. "In retrospect, I guess it was sort of naive to think that we would have any chance of averting war," Matt says. "But at the time we were told that diplomacy was still taking its course."
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 "The road from Kuwait to Baghdad was 11 hours. Brian Powers drove nine of them."
Click here to read the fourth installment in the "Through the Eyes of..." series.
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 William Willett served seven and a half years of active duty in the Army Infantry, serving at FOB Paliwoda outside of Balad, Iraq from February 2004 to February 2005. Since his honorable discharge from the military, William has lived in Germany with his wife, and has begun coping with his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His wife, a designer, has designed a public-service campaign on PTSD. Here's their story, and the PTSD-awareness posters his wife designed.
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Age: 37
Rank: Sergeant
Talk with James Downen for a good 15 minutes, and it’s unclear whether the man should be writing Kenny Rogers’ lyrics or George Bush’s foreign policy. Downen apologizes for delaying his interview, but lately, he says, he’s been as busy as “a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.” Anyway, he says, describing his years of service as a military photographer is easy: “I’m just a doofus with a camera” living in a “rinky-dink redneck town.”
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 Age: 22
Hometown: Robinson, Illinois
Rank: Specialist
So often the coverage of Iraq is just that: of Iraq—framed by the sectarian violence in Sadr City, miked up before a Baghdad market where hours earlier a car bomb exploded. Stephanie James' story is different.
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