Grey said that she personally untaped $10,000 from her husband’s voluminous torso after he came home from his first tour in Iraq. The next time, after a rotation to Afghanistan, it was seven or eight grand. The amounts varied, but he always came home with cash. “I was so freaked out that this had become our life,” she said. “And I couldn’t say anything to anyone. Not our children. Not even the other wives. “This is when I started to look at my husband as not who I married,” she continued. “He was not the same man. He had become a full-on conscienceless killer. Greed was his number one thing.
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sometimes I wonder how much people IRL are playing out video game tropes. So many video game mechanics focus on maximizing some resource. Maybe as these people get broken by violence and concussions and needful emotional numbing that it's sorta a script under the hood. money ++, money ++
