soldiers-of-war:IRAQ. Karbala. May 8, 2004.Sgt. Shawn Boothby of Maine was among soldiers who were t
soldiers-of-war:IRAQ. Karbala. May 8, 2004.Sgt. Shawn Boothby of Maine was among soldiers who were treated for dehydration during fighting in intense heat.“As a young man, I can’t believe the risks that I took. Now I’m thirty-one years old. I feel like a fifty-year-old guy and I know that bullets can hit me. I know what shrapnel does to my liver, to my heart. I know exactly what happens. I’m glad that I have lived through it; I really shouldn’t have.”— Ashley Gilbertson, September 2009, New York City, New York.Photograph: Ashley Gilbertson/VII. -- source link