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Photo made shortly after I arrived at Kandahar Airfield outside Kabul and before surviving the first of many rocket and ground attacks.
That innocent newbie face changed. The look eroded with each race for shelter as the Taliban ordnance pounded our ‘secure’ base.
Each round of incoming added to what was becoming the foundation of the Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that stalks me to this very day.
A dark creature is clinging to my back and raising the hair like hackles on the back of a dog.
That damned creature is no longer there.
It is gone because I am winning my
personal fight in the Total War on PTSD. I am winning the war through mindfulness of
