A soldier reflects: Those who had the least to lose sent us to war

By Patrick Murphy | March 18, 2013

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I loved the military. I especially loved the men with whom I served. The fact that 19 of them never made it home from Iraq continues to haunt me today. My reflections on the Iraq War, now almost 10 years after we came home, still seem too raw-–especially when the nation I love has moved on and doesn’t seem to have learned its lesson from an unnecessary war.

In Iraq, I led a BOLT team with the 82^nd Airborne Division (Brigade Operational Law Team) in south-central Baghdad.  It was my second post-9/11 deployment. We suffered through the 138-degree heat with few showers and the constant threat of danger from mortar fire, roadside bombs, and AK-47s.

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This article was originally published in msnbc.