The Ghosts We Carry

"The desert taught him about distance. First, the physical kind—miles stretching between outposts, between bodies, between then and now. Later, the kind that exists in the mind." Follow a combat veteran's journey from the streets of Ramadi to the isolation of modern America, where "his generation excels at this particular paradox—physically closer than people have ever lived, yet emotionally more isolated than perhaps any before them." This raw, unflinching narrative explores how "the loneliness isn't situational but existential—not merely the absence of others but the absence of genuine connection with those present." Through war memories, failed relationships, and the daily discipline that both saves and isolates him, discover how "maybe this is the war now. The long, slow battle against himself. And maybe, just maybe, he is still fighting to win."