Code Name: Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story Of The Iraqi Who Risked Everything To Fight With The U.S. Navy SEALs - Plot & Excerpts
The Iraq I know now is not the place where I grew up. Its location on earth may be the same, its essential geography identical. But it is a very different place. I do not wish to paint a portrait of paradise, for Iraq even then was far from a perfect land. Everyone puts a sheen on their past, their childhood especially; we almost always see it through a window that blocks out the darkness and enhances the light. Looking back, we remember the smiles of our fathers and mothers, our triumphs and successes. The failures seem smaller, the disappointments faded to the margins where they belong. Eons before the Roman Empire was conceived, the region that is now Iraq gave birth to the civilization of Sumer. The cities that made up Sumer were among the earliest known to us today. Cradled along the rivers, the southern Mesopotamian civilization thrived starting sometime before the twenty-ninth century B.C. Archaeologists credit the people with many inventions, from the simple but radical concept of the wheel, to mathematics that used the number 10 as its base—the same system we use today.
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