Words from the front-lines - Traveling-Soldier

Traveling-Soldier:

“They’re tired. They’re tired of being here.” – Navy Lt. Matthew Weems, chaplain for the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Fallujah, Iraq.

“When people say that war is the most terrible thing, they ain’t wrong. The things it does to people. You think that killing people for your country is cool, but when you do, it just numbs you.” – Sgt. Dave Bowden, Alpha Company, Task Force 2-2, 1st Infantry Division, Fallujah, Iraq.

“I don’t think we’re being completely clean about the reasons that we’re really over there and how we’re really treating the people. Those incidents of, say, prisoner abuse don’t just go on in certain places; they’re happening everywhere, all over the country. It’s not necessarily just the insurgents who are against us. I think it’s the general population of people. They get tired of seeing armed soldiers. What would you say if you saw Muslims from a different country out patrolling your streets every day? I’d be out there fighting them too.” – Army Spc. James Furnas"