“I was more [expletive] they pulled me out of country than I was having my finger blown off.”

Take the time to read this article from the Boston Globe on the attitude of the soldiers at Walter Reed. It is a great look at the men recovering there, but still want to get back to Iraq and Afghanistan:

If you are not a soldier, if you don’t love or know a soldier, you will never in a million years understand this, but many of the soldiers here would give anything to get back to their units.

Many have given an arm and a leg and they’d give the other one to get back.

McDermott talks like it’s only a matter of time.

We were sitting in the cafeteria, having lunch, and I pointed out that his trigger finger was missing.

“What would you shoot with?” I asked.

Sergeant Ceamus McDermott smiled.

And then he flashed his middle finger.

If you’re Special Forces, you can shoot.