A longish letter but well worth the read - what goes through a soldiers mind in field, how changes occur in personality, etc. Pretty thought provoking, at least for me.
"Dear American serviceperson in Iraq,
I am a retired veteran of the army, and my own son is among you, a paratrooper like I was. The changes that are happening to every one of you—some more extreme than others—are changes I know very well. So I'm going to say some things to you straight up in the language to which you are accustomed.