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Anthony Swofford

Anthony Swofford is the author of Jarhead: a marine’s chronicle of the Gulf war and other battles. He served in a United States marine corps platoon during the 1991 Gulf War. He has taught at Lewis & Clark College and Saint Mary’s College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and the Guardian.

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America through an Iraqi lens

How wide is the gap between Americans and Iraqis? In the twelfth of our Letters to Americans series, Iraqi blogger and mother of three sons, Faiza Al-Araji, writes to Anthony Swofford, ex-US marine and author of the 1991 Gulf war memoir, “Jarhead”.