A Glimmer of Hope

Pick your battles.

Clifton
Jan. 27, Ramadi (instant-message exchange)

IT'S ROB: Did you hear about that guy ... a Marine who went nuts and killed cops back home? He was stationed at Pendleton and he didn't want to go back.

[CLIFTON]: Yeah, King knows him from 2/4.

IT'S ROB: No s--t!

[CLIFTON]: They lived with us before the war ... we replaced them here ... cool guys ... we turned into them ... when we got here, everyone was like, damn these guys are depressed. They shoot at everything ... we won't do that. Here we are now. If it moves, it dies. We are so those guys ...