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“Sadly, the dark echoes of our time in Iraq still resonate with many of Echo Company, who battle with the effects of post-traumatic stress (PTS). Including me. I never refer to it as a disorder. A good friend of mine, Charles Adam Walker, taught me that. He wrote an article called “Postcombat Residue” in the December 2013 issue of the Marine Corps Gazette. It shaped the way I look at PTS today. Adam uses a prophetic analogy, likening the effects and residue of combat to those on a stained, well-used coffee mug. Indelibly tainted, yet still capable of performing its intended use day in and day out—but the residue will always remain.”
― Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
― Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
“I don’t know if our people ever stopped to think about the fact that the men with whom they had these allegedly in-depth conversations might have the equivalent of a third-grade education, at best. They knew their city, yes, but they didn’t have the education to implement any of the grandiose ideas that we were proposing. They never came to fruition anyway, at least not during our time in Iraq.”
― Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
― Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
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