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…n Iraq because we were in Iraq, and capturing her tormentors did not undo her 82 days in captivity. A friend of mine, a fellow Marine who lost both his legs to an IED, gave me the best advice: Don’t think too hard at night or it all unwinds.
There is a deep loneliness when the death of your friends stops registering. Years later a civilian acquaintance died unexpectedly while we were at grad school together, and I…