The book is one of the best in the genre. It’s a raw honest struggle about a man finding himself, and contextualing his choices within the framework of an infantryman.pic.twitter.com/gxAbCiwUV8
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Some thoughts on a book I read recently..... It’s a soldier’s story of a deployment and also his own struggles with identity and coming home. What would America look like if that $7 trillion spent in Iraq and Afghanistan had been kept home? We’d be living in a sci fi novel.
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Are there any infantrymen who deployed who returned with fond feelings for the pundit class and those politicians who voted to send them?pic.twitter.com/BzAmnabexl
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Set between love and war, the man struggles with life as a Joe, then NCO, then a wounded warrior in the VA... all while obsessing over a woman who, in any other era, he’d have been too good for.pic.twitter.com/rRrurc0DRs
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A great book is one that immerses you into the protagonist’s world. And is relatable. (That’s why it shows a form of illeracy when conservatives dismiss representation of groups in media and books.) If you’re a man, you’ll love the hell out of this.https://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Dirt-Cult-Samuel-Finlay/dp/0615622992 …
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No truer words spoken today. USA is being robbed & drained by oligarchs, war-industry & neo-con chicken hawks.
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have you read the things they carried?
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Great book
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Here’s the nightmare that I deal with with operation backbone soldiers that their government has just said not interested in helping.https://operationbackbone.org/their-words
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No. It would be wasted in other ways. Pockets lined. Corruption
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Yes Bush was an absolute disaster..especially considering the backlash got Obama elected.
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i think this what the media doesnt understand about the divide between the neocon and nu-right conservatives. The sheer waste of potential on wars while infrastructure and social issues get put to the back burner
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The money would have been stolen by corrupt politicians and their backers regardless, see: banks and the auto unions
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And not a giant segment of the population that have been broken
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What would it be like in 1941
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...but probably a dystopian Sci-Fi novel. Our problem has always been the character of individuals. You can design the greatest organizational structure known to mankind and it will get screwed up by ignorant, selfish people who want to impose their will on others. Happy Friday!
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Yeah, where's my flying car? Where's my holiday on the moon? Where's my rejuvination potion?
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The national debt could have been a mere $15 trillion.
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