I got a new camera. A digital one. Unintentionally I have been something of a luddite in the past, but I have lived most of my life broke and with little in the way of tech-toys. So I leave our Camp with my squad and go into Diwaniya with my fancy new camera and find the truly broke and toyless (in the modern/manufactured sense) but prove with pictures as I have seen on every mission, the kids are happy nonetheless. In the states, cartoons and consumer ads are hard to tell one from the other on SaToys'Rusday mornings. The whole socio-marketing animal of "you need what you don't have, and if you do have it...you need the newer better one...or you won't be happy" is not king in the lesser westernized or "developing" countries. Look for yourself. This crew entertained myself and half our squad as we waited for the other half to return from inside the Wadawahia Iraqi Police Station in Diwaniya.
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