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Absent Comrades
I don't spend much time here but I still hold vigil for them. After 20 years I finally kept my promise to visit Bobby Benson's resting place. And barely a week ago another comrade that I hadn't thought about in a very long time past away suddenly.
'Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?'
-Going Postal
SGT Michael ( Read more... ) -
To live forever.
‘Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?’ - Going Postal ( Read more... ) -
A childhood lost.
Today they announced the death of David Bowie. In some ways he defined a generation with his look, his style, his music. Funny thing, is that I never identified with his music. To me, he was the Goblin King ( Read more... ) -
9-11...14 years later.
Looking back on my posts, it's been a year since I last posted to LJ ( Read more... ) -
9-11
Thirteen years. Thirteen years out of a seventeen year career spanning three deployments and over three years of combat time, shaped by a single violent day. It's given me task and purpose. In the darkest of times it feeds the fire that sustains me ( Read more... ) -
Never Forgotten
Love them or hate them I am proud to call them brothers and sisters ( Read more... ) -
Redeployment or How I learned to Not Worry and Stop Giving A Fuck
Returning from a deployment (i.e. redeployment) is like going into to rehab. One minute, you can get your fix, you're riding high on the endorphins, feeling alive and nigh invulnerable. The next minute you're curling up in the corner with shakes and the itch hoping to God that you'd just die already. My mind and body need the two months of ( Read more... ) -
9-11
Around this time of the year I mourn the loss of innocence ( Read more... ) -
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Bagram Air Field
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(Untitled)
Watch me when I'm falling down
Step aside
Don't ask why
Let me down
Hit the ground
Bet you smile
Deep inside