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Harlan W Cordry 10/29/1942 - 6/22/2005

It never hurts less, it just hurts less often. Dad, I miss you every day.

About

Hi, welcome to the site. There really isn't much here, I originally wanted a web site so it would be easy for me to share the photos that I took while I was overseas. Now I have it just so I can play around with things and I don't have to give everyone a new e-mail address.

I have been redesigning the site for a couple of reasons. First, when I tell people that I am a web developer, I should have a site that I am proud of. Second, I wanted an excuse to use the twitter bootstrap.

The old site wasn't much to look at. I knocked it out in a couple of days, without a lot of thought behind it. It was a php site, so I was applying what I had been learning at school but as I said it wasn't anything that I was overly proud of.

I believe the new site looks much better. There isn't much different as far as content. I did redo the videos of my Iraqi Freedom pics. When I created them for the original site I was mostly concerned about the file size. At the time most of my friends and family were using a dial up connection. I ended up just putting the new videos on YouTube and Vimeo and serving them from there. I decided that using YouTube and Vimeo was a cleaner, more effective way of doing it. Why try to recreate what they do very well? The music video isn't mine. It was created by my squad leader, Don Austin. It was something that he created while we were over there and has let me post here.

Any way this is my new site, still a bit in progress but it is what it is.

My Iraqi Freedom Photos

A video made by my squad leader, Don Austin.

Camps I Visited

Map of Iraq

Iraq/Kuwait Camps

Here are some of the camps that I went to in Iraq. There are more but some I can't find and others I never knew the name of it to begin with.


Some of the camps that I either lived in or visited in Kuwait

There are several more camps in Kuwait but they are not listed on the site. I lived most of the time at Camp Arifjan, in a part called Truckville. I have been told that Truckville is now a container yard. I also spent a couple of weeks at the port in Kuwait and at Camp Navistar, the camp right on the border with Iraq.

Here is roughly where I lived. All of the tents are gone but it was right in there. Our motor pool was basically right out our front door. We lived there for about 4 months before I realized I could see the gulf from our front door.

Alex S. Cordry