A shocker even from the always absorbing Home Fires, from a former 82nd Infantry officer recalled from the IRR to serve in Afghanistan. Roman Saskow offers us this is one of the most elegant glimpse you’ll see of a dissenting soldier’s interior:
Tragically, over time, I became infected with the belief that our foreign, undeclared wars and endless militarism were destroying America, and this made rolling the dice again extremely difficult. A gigantic void occupied the part of my gut where my patriotism used to be. I needed a principle to be my guiding light, and the colonel’s fit nicely alongside my fragmented and contradictory memories of oaths and creeds I had sworn to long ago: Recognizing the hazards of my chosen profession … Against all enemies foreign and domestic …
Read the rest; you won’t regret it.
I Ain't Marching Anymore 