NIGHTSHIFT

5Aug09

I commend you for your service, lad. Don’t feel pressured to explain yourself in this forum, though I understand the need. You fulfilled your duty, honored the commitment you signed up for, like a real man should. You’ve done your share of burden, and you don’t owe no one, anybody any explanation – because frankly, nobody gives a damn. I’ve done my recent tour in Iraq among many deployments and now just preparing to go to Afghanistan before the year’s end, so I know how you feel, bro. I just heard someone on the telly called recent veterans of the war as the “Coalition of the Damned”. Yey, there’s quite a ring of truth to that, sadly.