“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”

A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”