" You are going to war! It is no longer a question of if you are going to go, but a question of when. Look around! In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can’t stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there. "

― Michael Anthony , Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq