MARK RICKERT wrote this e-mail while serving as
a journalist with the 372nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
in Iraq. On this day, he and his group were investigating
rumors of a mass grave. The letter is written to his grandfather,
Merle Kilgore, who was a friend and manager of Hank Williams,
Jr. The following is an exclusive excerpt from the Simon
& Schuster audiobook BEHIND THE LINES by Andrew Carroll,
read by Hank Williams, Jr. Get
transcript
1st Lt. Matthew Chau patrols a village cemetery in Halabja,
Iraq. (Courtesy of the Department of Defense)
Reprinted with permission from Andrew
Carroll's BEHIND THE LINES (Scribner, May
2005). For more information: www.warletters.com.