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Quotes from Iraq

Quotes from Iraq. Army Reserve Sgt. Casey Christensen.

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Quotes from Iraq

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  1. Quotes from Iraq

  2. Army Reserve Sgt. Casey Christensen "I talk to a lot of the guys, and it's hard for us to adapt. The noises scare us. The nightmares we have problems with. We have anger issues. For me, it's hard to hold a job. It's hard on your family. My dad says he can look into a GI's eyes, and he can tell who's been over there."

  3. Marine CPL. Jose Rosales "I get mad a lot. . . . There have been lots of times when I've almost gotten into a fight. I feel like fighting. Even if someone looks like he could beat me up, I don't care."

  4. Army National Guard Spec. Michael Gillis "I'm happier. I know I'm alive and I'm home. There's no reason to be mad."

  5. Navy Corpsman Jim Weller "The first week back, I was the best man in a wedding, and I had a Vietnam War veteran come up to me, and he handed me $50 and said, 'Take your wife out to dinner. I appreciate what you did. We didn't get the welcome we deserved when we got back, and I don't want that to happen to you; I want you to go out and enjoy yourself.'"

  6. Army Sgt. Kevin Benderman "I think the most common misperception about war in general is people think it's glamorous and glorious and wonderful, and it isn't."

  7. Army Reserve Sgt. Magda Khalifa "Gosh, there are so many people here who don't know what it is like to wear the uniform and serve your country overseas. I'm really grateful."

  8. Army Sgt. Dustin Conover "You watch TV at night. There's nothing on the news hardly ever. The only people it's affecting are the people wearing the uniform and their families. It's just not fair that this small population has to bear the burden."

  9. Army National Guard Spec. Eric Gainey "When they came back, a lot of people said they got PTSD. Yeah, right. Get over it. I saw more and done more than half of them anyway, and I'm not bothered. So what's the problem?"

  10. Army National Guard Sgt. Sinque Swales "Some people didn't say anything, and it just grew and grew inside of them. I wanted to let it out. Even now that I'm back home, and I look at the pictures of the guys, it's hard to keep from crying."

  11. Army Sgt. 1st Class Darrin Jones "It was good to see some trees. Something other than the sand. To get here with some fresh air, without oil burning in the air."

  12. Marine Capt. Robert Washington "I felt a little undeserving because of all the thanks I received. I felt like I was just doing my job."

  13. Army National Guard Sgt. Cliff Kazarian "I got more thank-yous and pats on the back than I ever got in my life. Even today, when I say I was over there.”

  14. Air Force Senior Airman Marie Binney "Sometimes it hurts to know Americans have all but forgotten us. America has totally forgotten about Afghanistan."

  15. Army Spec. Garett Reppenhagen "We left [Iraq] in February '05 and landed in Landstuhl [Germany] in a blizzard. It was 80 in Iraq. Everyone was going through their duffles looking for something warm. I just stared out the window at snowy Germany buzzing by, trying to figure out what had happened. The married guys were hugging their kids and wives. All of us single soldiers went to an empty barracks with no sheets on the beds. It didn't feel like home; we still felt deployed. I walked out to the shopette, and it was out of beer."

  16. Marine Major M. Naomi Hawkins "I don't think [other mothers] understand. The first thing they ask is, 'How could you leave your kids?' They are not tuned in to what is going on internationally. They are soccer moms, and the world is the school. I always find myself sitting with the dads."

  17. Army Major Randell Alicea "I'll treat people nicer. In Iraq, I would meet people, and the next day they wouldn't be there."

  18. Army Staff Sgt. Jeramey "Jay" Lopez "You know how the World War II vets, they sit on their porch and tell their grandkids, 'I was in a foxhole at Normandy'? I see myself doing that. It's something I'll have for the rest of my life."

  19. Army Reserve Sgt. Lisa Dunphy "You're so glad to have a shower for more than two minutes, but you come home and you're like, now what? Now you've done your thing and you're supposed to just drill. So it's just like uh . . . that was it. I've done it. Went over the hump and now what?"

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