The most chilling thing I read yesterday
I stopped and read three times this quotation in Greg Jaffe’s profile of a Marine major who committed suicide not long after returning from Iraq and retiring on partial disability: "I used to take great pride in who I was and what I have accomplished. I failed!! I failed everyone. My men in the Corps ...
I stopped and read three times this quotation in Greg Jaffe's profile of a Marine major who committed suicide not long after returning from Iraq and retiring on partial disability: "I used to take great pride in who I was and what I have accomplished. I failed!! I failed everyone. My men in the Corps died unnecessarily as I sat on my ass. What a joke!"
I stopped and read three times this quotation in Greg Jaffe’s profile of a Marine major who committed suicide not long after returning from Iraq and retiring on partial disability: "I used to take great pride in who I was and what I have accomplished. I failed!! I failed everyone. My men in the Corps died unnecessarily as I sat on my ass. What a joke!"
Bonus fact: A month after his suicide, his son shipped out to boot camp.
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