Iraq Veteran Returns To Baghdad As A Tourist  Award-winning poet
Brian Turner recently returned to Baghdad, but this time he was
a tourist. When he was there in 2004, he was a U.S. soldier.
Turner talks to Steve Inskeep about his trip, and his article in
the July issue of National Geographic.   Early in the war in
Iraq, in 2003 and 2004, Brian Turner served there as an American
enlisted man. He was a sergeant. Later, he left the military and
became a poet. We heard his poetry on this program in 2006. And
now the soldier-poet has returned to Iraq, this time as a
civilian.  He writes about his experience in the July issue of
National Geographic.  Mr. BRIAN TURNER (Veteran and Author):
Sometimes I feel as if I am sort of haunted by - in good ways
and bad ways; there's beauty and there's also difficult times -
Im sort of haunted by the things that happened before. But in a
similar way, I've been sort of haunting those streets as well,
going back in my mind to where I was. And I wanted to just go
there and see if