By Barry Owens
Bob Zook, College Hill resident and sometime civilian contractor in Iraq, was speaking about his time overseas the other day from the Skyroom of the Hillcrest when he offered a visitor his impression of a mortar attack.
“Fa-thoom, fa-thoom, fa-thoom,” he said. “They would shoot a dozen of them off. We were always counting. How many have landed? And then you would start to wonder, you know, are they getting closer, or are they getting farther away?”
Zook, 49, has spent three and a half years—more than half the length of the war—in Iraq. He is an accountant, mostly.
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