Brandon Friedman > Quotes

“On the refrigerator, Ammar’s family had magnets. Some of them held photos in place. Two of them affixed a drawing done by a child. It looked like the refrigerator I’d grown up with at my parents’ house. I wondered what we were doing fighting people with magnets on their refrigerators.”
― Brandon Friedman, The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War

“I, along with our fourteen soldiers, set off into the urban wilderness of Baghdad. We had six humvees, lots of ammunition, over a million dollars worth of equipment, and no idea what the fuck we were going to do with it all.”
― Brandon Friedman, The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War