"Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can't stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there."

"It was Week 7 of basic training ... eighteen years old and I was preparing myself to die," said Michael Anthony in "Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception and Dishonor in Iraq." The book is more than a simple memoir about a difficult experience. It is an insider's scathing testimony of an ongoing illegal and unethical military action in a distant, once-sovereign state, by the US. Perhaps, this fresh account will raise some outcry over an issue that has all but dropped out of the American public's radar.

You can read the rest at the link below~

http://www.truthout.org/mass-casualties-the-dark-underbelly-occupat...

By the way, I hadn't read this entire post when I first re-posted it here but I'm familiar with Dahr Jamail's writing and felt confident posting it not having completely read it. Now that I have, you're selling yourself short on reality if you don't go read the rest.