20 Years.

"If we are marked to die, we are now to do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honor" - William Shakespeare

This post isn’t for you, it’s for me.

It’s been 20 years today. Some days it doesn’t feel like it. Sometimes it seems a long longer. Four days later I will have an IED fail to go off 5 feet from my head. The cap fired, but the charge failed to detonate. That’s why I’m here. Happy Holidays.

Drink a toast to the boys.

• Sgt Thomas Dostie

• Sgt Lynn R. Poulin Sr.

• SSG Julian S. Melo

• CPT William Jacobsen

• SSG Robert Johnson

• SPC Johnathon Castro

• PFC Lionel Ayro

• Sgt Nick Mason

• Sgt David Ruhren

• SSG Darren Vankomen

• Chief Petty Officer Joel Baldwin

• Sergeant Major Robert Daniel Odell

• Iraqi Army Chief Warrant Officer Majdee Yousef Aziz

• Iraqi Army 1st Lt. Mushtag Satar Jabar

• Iraqi Army Sgt. Ahmad Hashem Mahdi

• Iraqi National Guardsman Sherzad Kamo Bro