April 6, 2010
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Which Battle Is Worse?
My oldest brother, you know, the one who will be deployed back to Iraq (for the FOURTH time) in less that two weeks… yeah, him. Well, he smokes cigarettes. A lot. I wouldn’t say he’s a chain smoker. But he’s definitely addicted to nicotine. I was thinking about him today and the fact that he’ll soon be heading to one of the most dangerous geographic locations on earth. As I ruminated over the various Iraq contingencies, the one thing that kept creeping up was the very real possibility that, outside of war, my battle-proven, war hero brother could easily die from smoking.
