Jeremy Bash’s Reviews > The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows > Status Update

Diagnosed with PTSD, And delivered the news that someone had gone missing to a family member

Meets another Eod tech for the first time who is covered in blood

War changes you, and those around you notice and have to live with that. He describes himself as "dead" even though he's still alive "I didn't laugh for over a year after I came back, my wife told me"

Castner is a good writer, uses sensory details to portray the scene and lets us imagine it. only downside is the constant flipping between present and past

He got back into deployment after a year and mentions how the memories of his kids are being faded or forgotten by his job

Describes his short time on tours due to certain events and his time before he got deployed

Brian recollects his days in EOD School and recounts how the person who pushed him the most, Jeff, Died.

Brian Castner recounts his past journey from his dreams as a child to getting into the airforce as a civil engineer, to becoming a chemical weapons specialist then to becoming an EOD where most of the chapter takes place

Castner continually flips between the present, past. Followig along can be confusing if you dont pay attention. He also describes how "the crazy" feels, A constant urge and longing to do something, but never getting that releif. He uses immagry to describe his thoughts when he was deployed, head constantly on a swivel, prepared to kill whomever, to stay alive.