What's the most exotic thing you brought home from Iraq or Afghanistan?

Answer 1

A Saddam Clock (it's kind of cheep but I like it)

A lighter that when you open it the explosion on the world trade center lights up, it has a plane flying toward it and has Osama at the bottom as well.

Answer 2

Dylan You just got your uncle in trouble Hun. This site is monitored.

Answering the question though. My brother-n-law bought a pretty rug over there and had it shipped to my sister. And the best thing my son came home with was his life. That was the best gift of all.

Answer 3

The knowledge that I had done something worthwhile.

The understanding of the difference between what is happening there and what the media is telling you.

The self actualization that comes from knowing that you have not only been associated with extraordinary people - but they considered you as 'one of them.'

An enhanced ability to spot fake "veterans."

And a total contempt of people like 'Nina' who try to tell me what I 'brought back' based on nothing but the propaganda she believes.

Answer 4

The Kurds I had worked in the first Gulf war gave me some pretty cool handmade flat rugs...

Miller, I had seen those clocks at BIAP. They were cool but pricey and they didn't seem to work so well, does yours keep good time?

Answer 5

Very strange question, but the only thing I can think of would be: the smell of death, the effects of depleted uranium, psychological disturbance from what I had to endure and pictures of my dead loved ones.

What else could I bring back from war??

Answer 6

my husband brought me back a croctched thong made by some iraqi women. very pretty . . . it it orange and green and yellow and blue. of course i have never worn it, but it was pretty exotic, and the last thing i would imagine him bringing to me!

Answer 7

My uncle shipped a throne like chair that he "cough" took "cough" from one of Saddam's palaces.

Answer 8

Never been to those places, never want to go to those places either.