Here is a guest post sent today from Iraq by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Big Tobacco (check out his own blog at http://big-tobacco.blogspot.com):

"Don't take this the wrong way, but people like me don't do things like that. So why do you?"  read more »

Brian Kresge, a sergeant in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, continues his response to my offer on www.JewsinGreen.com for someone to write a guest post about Jews serving in the U.S. military:

Because of my own experience, I often speculate what crafts the negative perception of American Jews with regards to military service.  read more »

The website www.JewsinGreen.com is an online resource for Jews in the U.S. armed forces. Recently the website has been collecting names of Jewish military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a comment to this list of names, someone said that he felt most Americans didn’t realize that Jews serve in the armed forces of the United States.  read more »