From Iraq, a Soldier/Father's Perspective on the War
The captain who had led the raid was angry: 'Well, this is just great! Now we have to go give that family bags of money to shut them up ... '
"A family had just lost their beautiful baby boy, and this man is worried about having to pay for a family's grief and sorrow."
"To this day I still think about that raid, that family, that boy. I wonder if they are attacking us now. I would be. If someone took the life of my son or my daughter nothing other than my own death would stop me from killing them. I still cry when the memory hits me. I have served my time. I have my nightmares. I have enough blood on my hands. Just let me be a father, a husband, a daddy again."