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The Weight We Carry

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The war doesn't end when the shooting stops. For many who served, that's when the hardest fight begins.

In The Weight We Carry, U.S. Army veteran and warrior poet James David Watson offers an unflinching journey into the heart of conflict and camaraderie, sacrifice and survival. These poems move from a field phone clicking in the Mogadishu night to rescuers digging through Haiti's rubble with bare hands. They move from a kitchen at 3:00 a.m., where the memories refuse to stay buried, to the ...