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The Blue Cascade derek strange and terry quinn seriesIn this searing and beautifully written memoir, Marine Lieutenant and CNN Op Ed contributor Mike Scotti charts a course from the front lines of Iraq back home to New York, showing how sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As one of the soldiers on the front line of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Scotti was taught that weakness is what gets you killed: no hesitation, focus

scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky

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known for centuries as the "City of Peace

The pressure to participate comes from all directions -- from peers

on a felony warrant

discussion of Americans' secret hopes

an account of a blind date who knew a comedy when she saw it (even if it was Death of a Salesman )

with vivid dreams serving as painful nightly reminders of his sacrifice

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Charged with enough alcohol

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