As our truck passed a memorial commemorating Iraqi martyrs who died fighting in the Iran-Iraq War, I asked another soldier sitting across from me, “Do you think they’ll ever build a monument to the American soldiers who died here?”
“No,” he said flatly.
Our truck bounced along and our bodies rocked with the rhythm as I watched the wall disappear around a corner.
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Carrying the Gun 