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-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... read more
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A young operating room technician is deployed to Iraq. Mass Casualties is a memoir that chronicles the hijinx that happened within a zany army hospital unit in the middle of Iraq.
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“I've got a belly full of bacon and eggs and I'm about to have my arms elbow deep in someone's stomach.”
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“They're dead. They're all dead. Every last one of them.”
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“The roof was littered with condoms. The big ones, too. Magnum.”
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“The sky is yellow, orange, and brown scratched together--not like the blue sky back in Boston.”
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“I'm laying in bed and my eyes are wide open. I can't sleep; the Ambien isn't working. I'm not hallucinating or seeing things, and I'm not falling asleep. My mind is too wired. I'm scared. I'm really scared. More scared than thinking I might go to jail, more scared than all the nights I spent hunched over in a bunker as mortars landed all around me.”
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“Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living; however, he ended up having to kill himself because he wouldn't compromise his way of life. I wonder if it could then be said that he examined life and found it not worth living.”
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Loaded with gear--a three-pound helmet, thirty-pound armored vest, eight-pound weapon, and thirty-pound rucksack--we're running.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Anthony (Author)
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Publication Date: 18 October 2009
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Page Count: 234
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Publication Date: 18 October 2009
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Page Count: 234
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- Dewey: 355
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