Outside the wire

I just received an e-mail from a gent by the name of Kevin Patterson. He's got a pretty interesting project on the go:

I was the RMO [Regimental Medical Officer] of the 3RCHA about a dozen years — or minutes — ago; since then I’ve left the military, specialized in internal medicine and started writing books. I just returned home from Kandahar a month ago, where I worked in the Role 3 facility in the ICU there. I’m editing a book for Random House Canada which will be an anthology of writing by soldiers who have served in-theatre. We’re open to writing of any length or subject so long as it concerns Afghanistan. Contributors will be paid and final editorial control over their pieces will rest with them. If anyone has ever thought that the media distorts the real picture of a soldier’s day on Afstan, then this is their chance to say it like it is in their own words.

Would you help me get the message out to soldiers about this project? As you know, the principle threat to the mission isn’t the Taliban right now — it’s public opinion.

How right he is.

If you're an Afghan vet interested in writing about your experience, check out the folks at outsidethewire.ca.