{"id":7231,"date":"2011-06-14T23:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T03:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2012-12-26T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T00:37:51","slug":"i-wish-i-had-died-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/image-of-the-day\/06\/14\/i-wish-i-had-died-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish I Had Died In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letter\/poem reads:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes, I wish I had died in Iraq. I would have been a hero &#8211; died for a cause, instead now &#8211; I&#8217;ll die a relatively wealth man sucking the teet of the contracting world.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I wish I had died in Iraq. I would never have known my wife cheat on me. I would have died a loving husband, a proud father.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I wish I had died in Iraq. I would be happy &#8211; died living a normal life, the American dream. Now I torture my mind on a daily basis &#8211; the war in my head is worse than any battle man has seen.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I wish I had died in Iraq. You wouldn&#8217;t worry about money anymore, obviously I wouldn&#8217;t either. Our daughter could go to college &#8211; you could too.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I wish I had died in Iraq. The soul-crushing demoralization of starting my life over is too much sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>What happened? Who am I? How am I supposed to deal with this? This isn&#8217;t my life!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wish that mortar wasn&#8217;t a dud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letter\/poem reads:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Wish I Had Died In Iraq - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The letter\/poem reads: Sometimes, I wish I had died in Iraq. 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