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I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

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My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

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Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

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The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

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Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

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I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

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I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

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I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

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I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

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As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 11th, 1980

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