War Is Life Multiplied By Some Number

If You Get An Infection, You Get A Fever; The Fever Is Your Body Dealing With The Infection. If You Get Traumatized, Your Mind And Your Brain Have A Reaction To That Trauma. If You're Not Dreaming About It, Something's Probably Wrong.

The Negative Effects Of Combat Were Nightmares, And I'd Get Jumpy Around Certain Noises And Stuff, But You'd Have That After A Car Accident Or A Bad Divorce. Life's Filled With Trauma. You Don't Need To Go To War To Find It It's Going To Find You. We All Deal With It, And The Effects Go Away After Awhile. At Least They Did For Me.

All Journalists Hope That Their Work Will Inspire A Broader Conversation. I Think That's Just What Journalism Is.

I Had Grown Up During Vietnam. I Had No Connections To The U.s. Military, And I Had A Pretty Cynical Default Opinion About The U.s. Military.

Soldiers Join The Military To Serve Their Country, But When Bullets Are Flying, It's Hard To Fight For An Abstract Notion Like Patriotism. They're Fighting For The People Standing Next To Them, And It Doesn't Matter Who's A Republican Or A Democrat, Or Who's Black Or White Or Christian Or Muslim Or Gay Or Straight. If Congress And All Americans Could Manage To Ignore Those Differences, We Would Have A Perfect Country, But Somehow We Cannot Rise To That Level Of Nobility.