Friday, September 25, 2009

"The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins

The book is a love song about Iraq. I quote the "Acknowledgments" section of "The Forever War," last paragraph:

"I fared better than many of the people I wrote about in this book; yet even so, over the course of the events depicted here, I lost the person I cared for most. The war didn't get her; it got me."

Love is a forever war. That's what it means to be in Iraq and Afghanistan for seven years. I know the feeling. This is a love story, and it's hard, you hate missin' it, but what a story it is.

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