Dog Tag Dealer
A Jam of Jar - Dog Tag Dealer
In order to find the body of the martyrs, we had announced that anyone who brings a dog tag and a body will receive a bag of flour. If one condition was met, they would receive half a bag. On that day, we got ready to go searching. A Kurdish man reached us. He was a Kurdish from Silican of Iraq. Only his collar was in shape and the rest of his clothes were torn and worn out. He claimed that he had the body of a martyr in his house, without a dog tag. I felt pity for him and helped him a bit. We went to his place. His wife behaved unpleasantly. “Why did you come here?”, she shouted. He said he had come to retrieve the body which was there. “God curse this man who is the killer himself”, she said in Farsi with a bit of Kurdish accent. Then, she explained that a while ago, a soldier came into their yard. He was severely injured and his limbs were out of his belly. They had covered his wounds. He had told them if they take him to ten kilometers near Iran border, he will cover them up until the end of his life. And then, this imposter had entered and dug the ground and buried him there alive. T hen, he had sold the soldier’s dog tag to Security Organization of Iraq and he had claimed the money. Then, he wanted to sell the body to us. I looked around. He was gone. If only I had seen him around...
