The last two days I’ve been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. It’s late and dark, but I’m so close now. My uncle died five kilometers from here.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-10th-anniversary dodds tucker-elliot
I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-01 dodds tucker-elliot
The only thing worse than his arrogance was his incompetence. He was a bully, behaving like an ass. I saw Angel though, not him. The memorial was right there, just outside the window. It’s in the flowers, and it makes me angry. Angel liked to sit on the couch, watch TV, eat chips. She hated outside. Maybe I should have been a bully and an ass to Angel’s parents. Maybe Angel and Grace would still be alive if I’d behaved like this piece of shit teacher.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-01 dodds tucker-elliot
We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
In Korea I’d been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didn’t get a flag. He went to Doha, then to Baghdad, then to Kabul, then to someplace else, and then to a different someplace else, on and on. He’d come home, leave again, come home, leave again, until one day he came home a different person altogether. Sami lost Angel, lost her family, and then she lost herself.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we’ve already lost.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-10th-anniversary dodds tucker-elliot
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.
Dexter FilkinsTags: humanity war iraq osama-bin-laden baghdad middle-east-conflicts
A few days later, Tuesday quietly crossed our apartment as I read a book and, after a nudge against my arm, put his head on my lap. As always, I immediately checked my mental state, trying to assess what was wrong. I knew a change in my biorhythms had brought Tuesday over, because he was always monitoring me, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Breathing? Okay. Pulse? Normal. Was I glazed or distracted? Was I lost in Iraq? Was a dark period descending? I didn't think so, but I knew something must be wrong, and I was starting to worry...until I looked into Tuesday's eyes. They were staring at me softly from under those big eyebrows, and there was nothing in them but love.
Luis Carlos MontalvánTags: love true-love iraq dog dog-lover iraq-war dogs-loyalty warrior bond tuesday ptsd wounded wounded-veterans tbi
كنت أظن فيما سب أن البكاء و إذراف الدموع و تلك الأمور شعيرة خصصت كطقس من طقوس الوداع الأخير ، لكننا نرى و نقرأ هنا شيء آخر ، مصابُ من نوع آخر لا شبيه له من أول الدنيا لآخرها ، رضيعُ يبكى عليه ساعة ولادته ، هنا رسول الله و ابنته و حشدُ كبيرُ من الملائكة في حال نياح على رضيع ساعة ولادته ..
حثا إنني الآن على يقين تام ، بأن الحسين عليه السلام قد ضرب بمصابه كل العادات و التقاليد المتبعة عرض الحائط، و انفرد بشخصه و ذاته عن الجميع ، فسلامُ على من بكى عليه ساعة مولده رسول الله ، و ناحت عيه الزهراء ، و جزع له جبرائيل و الحشد العظيم !
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