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Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying soldier in an Iraqi city street asking, “Why, God? Why is this happening? Where are you?” I can’t help but wonder the same. You realize that there is no justice, no karmic retribution swift enough, and that happy endings are a terrible, terrible lie. We are all subject to the same blind boot stomp and our luck is merely where we happen to be standing when death inevitably comes roaring down upon us.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Atheism Death God Iraq War Karma Ptsd Trauma War

A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

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M.b. Dallocchio Escapism Home Ptsd Saudade Trauma Wanderlust War

Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.

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M.b. Dallocchio Adversity Ptsd Resilience Trauma Truth War

The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed or killed. It’s not their children out there, blinded by manufactured patriotism or lured into the service with the promise of economic stability, all with the sanctimonious blessings of misguided public consent by way of corporate, state-sponsored media. It won’t be their children who are terrorized by Wahabbist insurgents tearing through city blocks and rural areas as only an ever-devouring plague could. It won’t be any of their loved ones watching thousands of years of civilization unraveling like an old sweater as each thread of wool is lit on fire or stolen to sell on the black market for greedy consumers with a fetish for hijacked Mesopotamian artifacts.

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M.b. Dallocchio Colonialism Corruption Exploitation Government Military Oligarchy Plutocracy Trauma War

There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there are others who want to keep silent and repress the memories, and all their family and friends want is to talk about it. I call this the war veteran reintegration paradox.

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M.b. Dallocchio Combat Ptsd Desert Iraq War Ptsd Trauma War Warrior

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

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M.b. Dallocchio Combat Desert Iraq War Loss Ptsd Survivors Guilt Trauma War

In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully and neat in real life. Flying chunks of human flesh and screaming orphans really put that Hollywood take into perspective and there is nothing clean or sterile about any of it. When people die, it’s fucking horrible.

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M.b. Dallocchio Death Film Iraq Ptsd Romantic Trauma Veteran War

Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip into an ocean of solitude for another taste of ostracization. I felt I would die.

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M.b. Dallocchio Ptsd Survivor Trauma War Woman Veteran

When you’re persistently deleted from history, media, and any other channel to access information – or that information is distorted – it’s far worse than physically killing someone. It, instead, induces a form of psychological death. How can you truly be alive, how can you genuinely breathe, when everyone around you believes that you either don’t exist or are dead?

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M.b. Dallocchio Alive Dead Erasure Genocide History Life Psychological Abuse War

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.

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M.b. Dallocchio Backlash Colonialism Government Corruption Imperialism Titanic War

Aside from clinically-diagnosed psychopaths, I have not met one person in war who thoroughly enjoyed killing. If someone ended up bragging over a kill, it was safe to assume that their story was mere fabrication or that they were one bad day away from an inpatient psychiatric ward. No matter how much someone may appear to deserve to be killed, something dies within us when we kill. It's contradictory, the antithesis of our species survival instinct.

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M.b. Dallocchio Combat Iraq Killing Murder Ptsd Survival War

Veterans being sent into unjust wars for corporate profit is a perversion of trust, at best. I found the emotional manipulation of both sides, the propaganda at play so incredibly revolting that I couldn't stand to idly wave a flag or flaunt yellow ribbons without asking serious questions regarding motive.

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M.b. Dallocchio Government Manufactured Consent Patriotism Ptsd Trauma War

A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off of his horse. Since Pantea Arteshbod propelled herself to become one of the greatest Persian commanders during the reign of Cyrus the Great. Since Hua Mulan disguised herself as a male to engage in combat and became one of China’s most respected heroines.

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M.b. Dallocchio Army Home Iraq Ptsd Survival Trauma Veteran War Women In Combat

To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.

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M.b. Dallocchio Iraq Ptsd Running Away Safety Survival Trauma War

A moving target is harder to kill, and I didn't stop running, maneuvering, until I reached home base, where I could breathe between death-defying sprints. I just need to make it home alive, and this will all be over, I told myself. Home.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Army Home Iraq Ptsd Survival Trauma Veteran War

Czechs simply don’t say they’re going camping or spending time outdoors. They say, in Czech, that they are going “into the nature” as though nature, příroda, is beyond a place in the woods or other forms of terrain, that nature was a state of mind and had the ability to reverse the crippling, chaotic aspects of life.

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M.b. Dallocchio Czech Republic Czech Wanderlust Nature Priroda Travel

That seductive aroma of unchecked power was more than enough to commit genocide and mass sexual assault while unashamedly carrying their nation’s flag draped around a crucifix. People completely devoid of introspection, flaunting their entitlement and a self-importance that masked an endless pit of dejection that demanded more gold, land, and power. The Spanish crown was a plague of miserable dimensions for Chamorros.

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M.b. Dallocchio Chamorro Cnmi Colonialism Guam Power Spain

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

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M.b. Dallocchio Avoiding Failure Commitment Effort Failing To Plan Hope Planning Ahead Prayer Wish Work

With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didn’t lose sleep over men, and I was too restless to be tied down. The grass didn’t even have time to grow around my feet before I was planning my next escape – whether it was to another state or out of someone’s life.

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M.b. Dallocchio Break Ups Departure Escapism Flight Or Fight Heartbreak Loss Love Lovers Ptsd Relationships Single Life Single Woman

The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.

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M.b. Dallocchio On The Road Ptsd The Desert Warrior Therapy Travel

She smiled, and said, “Take care that the voice of God and the Devil sound one in the same in the desert. Trust your instincts. You were not put on this earth to be naïve, blindly optimistic, or passive; you are here to be vigilant, to survive.

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M.b. Dallocchio Desert Desert Warrior Travel Vision Wanderlust

To walk through unknown streets in cities where you are merely learning the language is to force yourself into a new state of hypervigilance. You are a traveler, and hopefully not just a tourist, and must appear calm, but maintain your bearings. Not to get too lost, too off course and without alternatives, without an escape plan in the event of a dangerous situation.

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M.b. Dallocchio Foreign Hypervigilance Language Travel Wanderlust

Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the opening of one’s eyes is far better than what any mainstream news outlet could ever tell you.

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M.b. Dallocchio Mainstream Prejudice Travel Wanderlust

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

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M.b. Dallocchio Imperialism Let Them Eat Cake Lower Class Marie Antoinette Poor Poverty Rich Upper Class Wealth

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

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M.b. Dallocchio Crisis Danger Introspection Self Awareness Shadow Trauma

Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; it’s the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. It’s passion gone sour and fueled by pain, but, nonetheless, it’s passion and love is apparently still alive. Yet when indifference seeps into our spirits, an emotional numbness and permitted scotoma takes the place of any passion – whether it’s love or hate – and resigns in a new state of being.

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M.b. Dallocchio Apathy Hate Indifference Love

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Controversy Crisis Isolation Mental Health Silence Stigma Taboo

I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.

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M.b. Dallocchio Emptiness Human Nature Humanity Racism Rage

Home.” This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.

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M.b. Dallocchio Home Ptsd Recovery Running Away Trauma Wanderlust

Ramadi’s sky was generously filled with stars. Celestial ornaments set against a banner of a deep blue velvet sky. It was a place where hell, death, and heaven were so clear and the closest I’ve felt to all three in my life.

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M.b. Dallocchio Death Heaven Hell Iraq Iraq War Ramadi

If anyone thinks interracial anything is a big deal, they're probably inbred.

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M.b. Dallocchio Bigotry Interracial Racism Racism In The West

I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.

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M.b. Dallocchio Bigotry Exotic Exotic Animal Humanity Racism

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either.

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M.b. Dallocchio Bigotry Colonialism Imperialism Racism

Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it’s then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox.

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M.b. Dallocchio Colonialism Inferiority Complex Racism Racism In The West Validation

Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Art Artist Artistic Break The Rules Discipline Fine Art Rules Rules To Live By
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