From the author: "This book is important to Wisconsin because it directly recounts an important episode for a large group, our 680 soldiers, but also because that same history is shared now by the majority of Wisconsin's National Guard and Reserve soldiers, almost 10,000 of them. As a living history of a war currently in progress, I hope people take away a greater understanding of what life is like over there, living on base, going out for missions, dealing with the Iraqi people."
