Touring Around in Mosul

On our days off we often in Mosul we usually went over to FOB Marez to walk around and to simply get away from work. (Our living quarters are roughly 40 feet from the hospital.) We were able to climb up into a guard tower and get an amazing view of the city of Mosul. It was interesting to see such a large city and to know that there are so many similarities to the US. There are the wealthy that dominate the commerce and set the standard for everyone else to follow. And then there are the poor that are struggling to place food in their children's mouths or put a rough over their heads. In the far distance there is even a mountain range that we could barely make out through all the dust in the air (think of Southern California on its worst smog day, that is what it looks like). This is probably as close as I am going to get to actually seeing Iraq.