Their Lives Would Never Be the Same. In Some Ways, Neither Would Mine.
What about all the lives lost? What about the ones we didn’t know but whose deaths we learned about on screens and in telephone calls?
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DonateJoel Searls is a journalist, writer, and creative who serves as a major in the Marine Corps Reserve as a civil affairs officer and COMMSTRAT officer. He works in entertainment while writing for We Are The Mighty, Military.com, and The Leatherneck. Joel has completed the Writer’s Guild Foundation Veterans Writing Project, is a produced playwright (Antioch), a commission screenwriter, and Entertainment consultant. His most recent feature film-producing project is “Running with the Devil,” a top 10 film on Netflix written and directed by Jason Cabell, a retired Navy SEAL. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University. You can check out more of his work on his blog and on The Samurai Pulse.
What about all the lives lost? What about the ones we didn’t know but whose deaths we learned about on screens and in telephone calls?
I thought about his lost future and struggled to compose myself. I knew it was up to all of us who make it home to carry on the memory of those who don’t.