Back from Iraq war, and alone, 10 March 2010, Special to CNN
By Mike Scotti
A few days after I had returned from a six-month deployment to Iraq, my second sojourn in the Middle East since 2001, I remember feeling like I was an alien creature from some other planet. It was 2003, and I was attending a friend’s wedding. As I sat at the table listening to the conversation, I suddenly realized that someone who had never been in combat could never even remotely understand what I had just been through.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/10/scotti.war.veterans/?hpt=C1
