Re "After Combat, the Unexpected Perils of Coming Home" ("A Year at War" series, front page, May 29): In October 2003, I commanded a quick-reaction force in Iraq called to rescue some ambushed soldiers.
Much of the money that sustains life here — along the serpentine streets of retirement villages carved into the old farmland — was made elsewhere, long ago, and salted away for the future, which has now arrived, bearing unexpected perils.
And the process is never a smooth, linear one; writing a thesis is fraught with unexpected perils.
AL: One of the unexpected perils of this process was that it was intertwined with the death of my parents.
BOURG-LÈS-VALENCE, France — Just when the cyclists at the Tour de France thought the most dangerous week of the Tour was behind them, unexpected moments of peril returned in Stage 11 on Thursday.
Lone Survivor has Mark Wahlberg heading a solid cast in an unapologetically gung-ho action tale based on the experiences of Marcus Luttrell, a US Navy Seal on the run from the Taliban after his recon unit encounters an unexpected source of peril.
"Even if an invasion of Iraq is successful in military terms, the aftermath is fraught with peril and unexpected consequences," the statement read.
But a result is that an America that suddenly has its soldiers in foreign peril finds an unexpected dearth of them on the screen.
Such are the perils, vagaries and unexpected impulses and resolutions associated with the Royal and Ancient Game.
This strong debut works as a page-turner and as a depiction of life in inner-city Britain, full of incomprehensible perils, quotidian heroics and unexpected resources.
