"A powerful, haunting, provocative memoir of a Marine in Iraq--and
his struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a system trying
to hide the damage done
"Marine Sergeant Clint Van Winkle flew to war on Valentine's Day
2003. His battalion was among the first wave of troops that crossed
into Iraq, and his first combat experience was the battle of
Nasiriyah, followed by patrols throughout the country, house to
house searches, and operations in the dangerous Baghdad slums.
But after two tours of duty, certain images would not leave his
memory--a fragmented mental movie of shooting a little girl; of
scavenging parts from a destroyed, blood-spattered tank; of
obliterating several Iraqi men hidden behind an ancient wall; and
of mistakenly stepping on a "soft spot," the remains of a Marine
killed in combat. After his return home, Van Winkle sought help at
a Veterans Administration facility, and so began a maddening
journey through an indifferent system that promises to care for
veterans, but in fact abandons many of them.
From riveting scenes of combat violence, to the gallows humor of
soldiers fighting a war that seems to make no sense, to moments of
tenderness in a civilian life ravaged by flashbacks, rage, and
doubt, "Soft Spots "reveals the mind of a soldier like no other
recent memoir of the war that has consumed America.
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