The Troubled Homecoming Of The Marlboro Marine

[Nick Arnett]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Dave Land <dmland at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>     So what was he thinking? "Get the fuck out of Kentucky,"
>     Miller says, his lip curling in a half-smile. "It was the
>     only way I knew to travel and see the world. I just
>     happened to pick a weird time to go. I got to travel, and
>     it was a life-altering experience, that's for sure."


And that's the reason Wes joined, too, he told me -- to travel and see the
world.  Fallujah was life-altering in the most dramatic of all ways for him.

Wes was killed the day after the picture of Miller was taken.

The comments along the lines of "What did he think he was signing up for?"
and "Others aren't using the war as an excuse" really get under my skin.
Walk a mile in his shoes, people.

Nick

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