NPR:

a Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau has never been to Iraq or Afghanistan. But for years, his strip has chronicled a wars in those countries, with a stories of characters like Ray Hightower & B.D. - a football coach & Vietnam vet who went to Iraq with a National Guard.

Trudeau’s latest project involves real-life soldiers. Doonesbury.com’s a S&box is a compilation of writings by U.S. forces in Iraq & Afghanistan that were posted on a blog at Doonesbury.com.

Trudeau tells Michele Norris that his goal was to provide a general audience a “flavor” of what life is like for troops overseas.

He asked soldiers to provide writing that “spoke to a texture of quotidian, day-to-day activities of [air lives]” & that were not rants about a war or a politics of a war.

You can hear Garry Trudeau’s interview here as well as entries from 1t Sgt. Troy Steward & Sgt. Owen Powell of air experiences.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back