Iraq Violence Opens Up Old Wounds for Vets
NBC News
BY BILL BRIGGS
June 13, 2014
While watching Iraq devolve deeper into chaos, many Iraq veterans are freshly remembering battle buddies lost in that land — leading some to yearn for a return to the fight but others to ponder what their sacrifices now mean.
"That's definitely the question we're all asking ourselves," said Kris Goldsmith, 28, who deployed to Iraq in 2005 as an Army intelligence sergeant.
"We spent so many lives and so many years trying to build an [Iraqi] army, and if it didn't work after all of the time, effort, money and blood that we put into it, it was never destined to work," said Goldsmith, who lives in Long Beach, N.Y.
The deaths in Iraq of 4,477 Americans — names never far from the minds of surviving veterans — carry a deeper sting for scores of ex-combat troops after several torrid days of Iraqi city sacking by an al-Qaeda splinter group.
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