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    Pulling Off A Halloween Prank During A Deployment In Iraq

    "We were doing an awful job in an awful time," veteran Garett Reppenhagen said in a StoryCorps conversation. "If I shed any joy to anybody on that base that day, then I think it was all worth it."
    by Sylvie Lubow Oct 31, 2020 2 minutes
    "I think in a lot of ways, we survived that deployment in Iraq by sharing humor with each other," said former Army Spc. Garett Reppenhagen, seen at home in Colorado Springs, Colo.

    StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative records stories from members of the U.S. military and their families.

    Former Army Spc. Garett Reppenhagen has always loved Halloween. Even during his year-long deployment to Iraq in 2004, he still found a way to celebrate.

    For a remote StoryCorps conversation earlier this month, Reppenhagen told his friend,

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