The Return of a Season

"The heat is returning slowly to Iraq, or at least Baqouba now usually I'd curse it but it's a welcome sign to me and my fellow soldiers. It's a sign that we've already seen the summer once, and the second coming of summer means the end of deployment.

It makes me contemplate, all that we've accomplished, all that we've lost, and how much we all have changed. We arrived in Baghdad in late April, taking over operations in the Dora neighborhood. That was a crazy time for us, we lost 3 close friends during the 3 months we spent there. Before we left Dora, we had secured it; unfortunately handing over a neighborhood to a unit that refuses to dismount meant all of our hard work had been for naught."
False Motivation