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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008.
- Profanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020