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Phil Klay
Phil Klay
American Writer
Born: 1983
Experience Me Military People War You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. Phil Klay
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I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps. Phil Klay
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Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual. Phil Klay
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I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. Phil Klay
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It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured. Phil Klay
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If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war. Phil Klay
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I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something. Phil Klay
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I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with. Phil Klay
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For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home. Phil Klay
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The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed. Phil Klay
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Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings. Phil Klay
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People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories. Phil Klay
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I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of what it means. We figure things out; we work things out through the help of other people who can engage with us but also be intelligently critical. Phil Klay
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When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me. Phil Klay
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We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again. Phil Klay
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The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera. Phil Klay
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I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis. Phil Klay
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation. Phil Klay
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I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans. Phil Klay
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I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. Phil Klay
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Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with. Phil Klay
People Sometimes Language Mask Macho Deal Ready Things
When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues. Phil Klay
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In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world. Phil Klay
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If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family. Phil Klay
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I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines. Phil Klay
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I saw so many radically different versions of Iraq. It would have been difficult for me to come back and think, 'This is the Iraq experience.' Phil Klay
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