Kill Lists and Victoria's Secret

A Marine's candid, and often funny, reflections on life during wartime.  — The Iraq War Diaries of Lt. Tim McLaughlin

MARCH 14, 2013

In the vein of the war novelist Tim O'Brien, and perhaps even Homer, 1st Lt. Tim McLaughlin peppered his Iraq war diary with lists: the kills his tank made (70), the Iraqi civilians he encountered, the events that had changed his life. During periods of downtime, he wrote poems and songs, too -- like "The Twelve Days of Combat," above.