article_snippet.sent: Dealing with reams and reams of emails, memos, and reports of people dying around me every day — to the point it becomes just a statistic to many people — made me realize just how short and precious our lives really are. '
article_snippet.sent: I could've been killed at any moment too.
article_snippet.sent: I wouldn't have been able to do that before I deployed to a combat zone.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Reveals how being deployed to Iraq