From Baghdad With Love
From Baghdad With Love tells the true story of the love shared between a little puppy and a colonel in the war in Iraq. The main setting is Fallujah. While searching an abandon building, the colonels squad find a little puppy, and they keep it and take care of it, and they named it "Lava." Lava stays with them at their base, and all the soldiers develop a connection with him. But none of the soldiers had a connection with Lava like the colonel. The colonel slept with the dog, fed it the most, and got to know it the most. In fact, when the soldiers were moving out of their base, he couldn't let Lava go.
The rest of the story consists of the trouble and depression that the colonel went through as he tried to get Lava back to the states. In the end, the colonel goes back home, and gets to spend the rest of the dogs life with him.
This book told a story that was very good for me, considering I love dogs. But that's not all. The story taught me about the agony most soldiers go through in the war, wether it's about your friends dying, or just a dog. But my favorite thing about this book is that it tells you two things/two messages: You can have relationships with anything, like its a relative, and that war can destroy a person inside. Those are two things I will never forget.
- Daniel Rentzer 803
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