Redeployment

by Phil Klay

We took my combat pay and did a lot of shopping. Which is how America fights back against the terrorists.

Outside, there’re people walking around by the windows like it’s no big deal. People who have no idea where Fallujah is, where three members of your platoon died.

But sorry isn’t a feeling, you understand. It’s an action. A determination to make things right.”

“Which would be the Marine Corps,” Ed-the-banker said. “Two hundred thousand workers all yoked to the same goal. Two hundred thousand workers risking their lives for that goal.”