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“War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.”
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“Everyone acted like they knew so much about the war. But none of them really knew anything besides what they had learned through Internet searches or shady half-truths political pundits spouted from the comfort of their news desks. Nothing could ever be flushed out because nobody bothered to ask the troops or look at both sides of the story.”
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t shoot when I should have. There was no way to explain why I did either. Everything happened so fast. Decisions had to be made. After I got home I began to see things in slow motion, see the actions that might’ve been mistakes.”
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.”
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“I guess I was always looking for something. What it was, I didn’t know. I wanted help from the VA, but didn’t want to go back, didn’t want to be subjected to that second-rate treatment any longer. I wanted to find peace within myself, but didn’t know how or where to locate it. I wanted to be a sergeant again, a writer, less angry, a better husband, and to ward off the constant bombardment of war-related thoughts. Most of all, I didn’t want any more Americans coming home from Iraq in boxes or with jingle-jangled minds.”
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
― Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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