A Soldier's Journey in Afghanistan

"I was in Afghanistan a week And at PB fires For 24 hours when I received my first mission on October 9th 2010 I had everything I thought I wanted Now it was time to find out the truth" "The Taliban hid IEDs by the hundreds They buried yellow plastic jugs containing pounds of homemade explosives Triggered by pressure plates that completed a circuit When someone stepped on them IEDs were indiscriminate weapons Killing Marines and Afghan civilians alike"