Oops, U.S. Soldier Phones Home, Mid-Firefight!
May 6th, 2008
Stephen Phillps’ Soundtrack to War
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Here’s what happened when the U.S. soldier, Stephen Phillips, phoned home like a good son, oops, in the middle of a Taliban firefight half a world away.
Thank automatic redial for the glitch that sent Mom, Sandi Petee, into a panic back home in Otis, Oregon when she played back the message and heard the soundtrack to war in Afghanistan: a three minute stacatto of machine gun fire, laced with panicked MPs yelling for more ammo…then a shout: “Incoming, RPG!” And the phone cuts off. Read the rest of this entry »
