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“I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.”

Home Family Return Strangers Post Deployment

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“Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.”

War Support Military Army Iraq Troops Ptsd Soldiers Lip Service

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“Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.”

Regret Words Bullets

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“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.”

Writing Death Fiction Journal Letter

Book:Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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“Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.”

Words Soldier Deployment Memior

Book:Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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“No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.”

War Death Survival Marine Deployment

Book:Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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“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.”

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Book:Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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