Looking back on my posts, it's been a year since I last posted to LJ ( Read more... )

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... )

Around this time of the year I mourn the loss of innocence ( Read more... )

You keep going. You keep fighting. Long after the flag waving ends. Long after the smell of burning meat and fuel have faded. Long after they've washed the blood off the pavement. Long after people remember why you went to war in the first place. Long after the talking heads have talked the issue to death. Long after the politicians have patted ( Read more... )

Never Forgot.

Confusion followed by disbelief shapes itself into clarity which becomes ruthless purpose ( Read more... )