Mar 18 2010
Back from Iraq War, and Alone
Wow, we came across a compelling story on CNN.com, told by Mike Scotti, a servicemember who talks of feeling alienated and isolated after returning home from Iraq.
It was 2003, and I was attending a friend’s wedding. As I sat at the table listening to the conversation, I suddenly realized that someone who had never been in combat could never even remotely understand what I had just been through.
I looked around. The chamber music quartet, the beautiful bridesmaids, the steak dinner … none of it was real. My buddies were, at that moment, probably on patrol and quite possibly engaged with the enemy. That was real.
Scotti is the subject of the documentary film Severe Clear. For the men and women returning home from the battlefield, this looks like it could be one film they need to see.