Some time after the end of the Iraq War, an Iraqi soldier fighting alongside American troops found a torn and tattered diary in an abandoned bunker.
Unable to read the English, he passed it on to his American counterparts, who delivered it to an Associate Press reporter.
The surviving contents are reproduced here, unedited.
August 29th, 2002
Dear Diary,
I’ve gotten an acting job! Only 3 weeks out of drama school, I meet this guy today and he hired me on the SPOT!. I knew that acting would work out for me… everyone said I shouldn’t have quit the bathroom fixture thing and go to London. They said I was too old, they said acting is too hard and it’s only for attractive twenty-somethings…well HA! Here I am, just finished my first summer intensive and I have a real job!
It looks great…I’ll be living away from home for a while, but that’s the life of an actor, isn’t it? I’m really lucky to find such a great gig in the summer too. The downside is I’m going to have to go to Iraq, but the contract is open-ended! Everybody says I shouldn’t do it – they all said something about Iraq being dangerous and there might be a war or something – but I can’t let that hold me back. I mean, what’s more dangerous than being an actor?
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