Anthony then moved home to Massachusetts, where he joined a group of men who gathered together to pick up women.
Yet all he could manage were brief encounters that did nothing to save him from the emptiness he felt inside. He began his quest for happiness by signing up for a three-day self-improvement course on how to attract women. When the author returned to San Diego from his tour, he realized that he was addicted to painkillers and sleeping pills and that “it had been two years since I’d even kissed a woman.” Lonely and miserable, Anthony decided that if his life did not improve in three months, he would kill himself. Days flowed together into a never-ending sameness that made remembering events difficult, and physically overtaxed soldiers, including Anthony, lived on prescribed pain medication.
“The rush from constant, near-death experiences was like no other,” he writes. A young war veteran tells the story of how his tour in Iraq left him unable to cope with day-to-day civilian life.įor Anthony ( Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq, 2009, etc.), life as a soldier in the U.S.
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