#Phil Klay

[willywaldo]

A powerful piece by Phil Klay on Guernica's cowardly decision to pull an essay by an Israeli author (without the courtesy of informing her first) because of objections from the magazine's staff and writers.

Klay argues that pulling the piece is a "betrayal of the task of literature, which cannot end wars but can help u see why people wage them, oppose them, or become complicit in them.

"Empathy here does not justify or condemn. Empathy is just a tool. The writer needs it to accurately depict their subject; the peacemaker needs it to be able to trace the possibilities for negotiation; even the soldier needs it to understand his adversary. Before we act, we must see war’s human terrain in all its complexity, no matter how disorienting and painful that might be. Which means seeing Israelis as well as Palestinians—and not simply the mother comforting her children as the bombs fall and the essayist reaching out across the divide, but far harsher and more unsettling perspectives."

[pilgrimjim]

"We must learn to forget revenge"—Thinking about Gaza

Israel and Gaza: a time for tears, a time for thought.

Palestinian Christian girl in Ramallah (May 1989). I photographed her on Easter Monday 34 years ago. Does she have children? Are they safe? If we could see every face as an icon of God, peace would come. “[A] contemplative politics will be one that is capable (as seems so unthinkable in public life at the moment) of recognizing and naming our own failure, the hurt done as well as received, and…

[commonplacelit]

EOD handled the bombs. SSTP treated the wounds. PRP processed the bodies. The o8s fired DPICM. The MAW provided CAS. The o3s patrolled the MSRs. Me and PFC handled the money.

If a sheikh supported the ISF, we distributed CERP. If the ESB destroyed a building, we gave fair comp. If the 03s shot a civilian, we paid off the families. That meant leaving the FOB, where it's safe, and driving the MSRs.

I never wanted to leave the FOB. I never wanted to drive the MSRs or roll with 03s. PFC did. But me, when I got 3400 in boot camp, I thought, Great. I'd work in an office, be a POG. Be the POG of POGs and then go to college for business. I didn't need to get some, I needed to get the G.I. Bill. But when I was training at BSTS, they told me, You better learn this, 3400s go outside the wire. A few months later, I was strapped up, M4 in Condition 1, surrounded by o3s, backpack full of cash, twitchiest guy in Iraq.

I did twenty-four missions, some with Marine 03s, some with National Guardsmen from 2/136. My last mission was to AZD. A couple of Iraqis had driven up fast on a TCP. They ignored the EOF, the dazzlers and the warning shots, and died for it. I'd been promoted to E4, so PFC was taking over consolation payments, but I went with him to give a left-seat right-seat on working off the FOB. PFC always needed his hand held. In the HMMWV it was me, PFC, PV2 Herrera, and SGT Green. Up in the turret on the 240G was SPC Jaegermeir-Schmidt, aka J-15.

There wasn't a lot to look at on the MS south of HB. We scanned for all the different types of IEDs AQI would throw at us. IEDs made of old 122 shells, or C4, or homemade explosives. Chlorine bombs mixed with HE. VBIEDs in burned-out cars. SVBIEDs driven by lunatics. IEDs in drainage ditches or dug into the middle of the road. Some in the bodies of dead camels. Others daisy-chained together-one in the open to make you stop, another to kill you where you stand. IEDs everywhere, but most missions, nothing. Even knowing how bad the MSRs were, knowing we could die, we got bored.

PFC said, "It'd be cool to get IED'd, 'long as no one got hurt."

J-15 snapped, said, "That's bad juju, that's worse than eating the Charms in an MRE."

Temp was 121, and I remember bitching about the AC. Then the IED hit.

PV2 swerved and the HMMWV rolled. It wasn't like the HEAT trainer at Lejeune. JP-8 leaked and caught fire, burning through my MARPATs. Me and SGT Green got out, and then we pulled PV2 out by the straps of his PPE. But PV2 was uncon-scious, and I ran back for PFC, but he was on the side where the IED hit, and it was too late.

PFC's Eye Pro cracked and warped in the heat. The plastic snaps on his PPE melted. And even though J-15 left his legs. behind, at least he got CASEVAC'd to the SSTP and died on the table. PRP had to wash PFC out with Simple Green and peroxide.

The MLG awarded me a NAM with a V. Don't see too many 3400s got a NAM with a V. It's up there next to my CAR and my Purple Heart and my GWOT Expeditionary and my Sea Service and my Good Cookie and my NDS. Even 03s show respect when they see it. But give me a NAM with a V, give me the Medal of Honor, it doesn't change that I'm still breathing. And when people ask what the NAM is for, I say it's so I don't feel bad that I was too slow for PFC.

In boot camp, the DIs teach you Medal of Honor stories.Most recipients were KIA. Their families didn't get a. homecoming, they got a CACO knocking on their door. They got SGLI. They got a trip to Dover to see Marines lift the remains out of a C-130. They got a closed casket, because IEDs and SAF don't leave pretty corpses. The DIs tell you these stories over and over, and even a POG like me knows what they mean.

So I tell my family, "I'm staying in-the G.I. Bill can wait." And I tell my OIC, "Sir, I want to go to OEF. OEF's where the fight is now." And I tell my girlfriend, "Okay, leave me." And I tell PFC, "I wish it'd been me," even though I don't mean it.

I'm going to OEF. As a 3400. As a POG, but a POG with experience. I'll distribute CERP again. I'll roll with 03s again. And maybe I'll get IED'd again. But this time, out on the MSRs, I will be terrified.

I will remember the sounds PFC made. I will remember that I was his NCO, so he was my responsibility. And I will remember PFC himself as though I loved him. So I won't really remember PFC at all--not why I gave him low PRO/CONs, not why I told him he'd never make E4.

Instead I will remember that our HMMWV had 5 PX. That the SITREP was 2 KIA, 3 WIA. That KIA means they gave everything. That WIA means I didn't.

Phil Klay, “OIF.”

[klai-16xoxo]

{Gazing In The Sky}

“They look so carefree, wouldn’t you agree?”

- @sleepy-meep

A drawing I made for Sleepy for her OC, Phil :3!! I had struggled with the background many times while making this to the point I just said “fuck it” and used any assets that were in the app to creat the background even if it is not explicitly what i imagine it to be, still liked it tho!

[compacflt]

question: how do you find your research/sources? yours and dancing disasters' icemav fics are so inside baseball i love it, but how do you go about doing research?

I just read a lot & google stuff I don't know & am curious about. not that hard to start learning. and in terms of reading I've been interested in military history & milfiction my whole life. mostly related to the US army, actually--im extremely new to naval history and naval literature; all of that interest was driven by top gun. I've also been fortunate enough to visit a lot of the places I write about--ive been to Pearl Harbor a couple times & San Diego MANY times, for instance, and I've toured a few aircraft carriers and military bases. I've also finally bitten the bullet and kinda shifted my career path towards aerospace, so I've been learning a lot just by working in the aerospace & defense sector/spending a lot of time with people who do.

that's obviously not to say that I am somehow Educated in all this stuff. im pretty open on this blog about me being young & naive & wrong much of the time about how the real world works. so, you know, a lot of shit I just Make Up according to my preconceived notions of the military & the world.

here is my recommended military/navy reading list, some fiction and some nonfiction.

someone also asked recently if I had read anything good in the last 6 months--yes!! three new additions to my reading list: a) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. So goddamn good. If you have to read only one novel about the Iraq War, make it this one. It's more about America than it is about Iraq. b) Redeployment by Phil Klay. This one is a collection of short stories about Marines in Iraq, written by a USMC vet, talk about inside baseball. Crazy amounts of jargon in here, basically a "to-google" list. won the national book award which idk if it deserved, but it's good. c) No true glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah by Bing West. currently reading this one, really well done so far, talks a lot about how fucked the US strategy was in Iraq with Fallujah serving as a metonymy/case study for the war itself.

again... this is all mostly close-quarters-combat (infantry) literature, I really am not that interested in the navy/Air Force that much outside of top gun lol

though I did recently remember that in early 2022, before I was into top gun, I read "Wingmen" by Ensan Case, which is actually a gay US naval aviator romance set in WWII published in 1979! it's really authentic and kind of sad, obviously, since it was a 1940s navy gay love story published in 1979. I don't actually think Wingmen influenced how I wrote wwgattai or how I think of TG/TGM but I just remembered that I read that book in February 2022 and going "oh my god they were wingmen" so maybe you might find that book interesting.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

The worst thing for human rights is when a war breaks out.

In the 1980s at the United Nations there was even a discussion of the possibility of having a human right to peace – but it died quickly and in part because the United States opposed it. What we’ve seen since, I think, is a new version of human rights that is untethered from peace, that indeed sometimes justifies war on the grounds that peace can sometimes entrench injustice. The trouble is that disrupting the peace usually makes things even worse.

This is the “humanitarian” argument for the Iraq War, for example.

The record of our time suggests, once again, that our ancestors were right to think that peace comes first, and if you want to advance justice you can’t do it through war.

One of the most interesting moments in the current debates occurred when the Kenyan representative to the UN said, look, postcolonial states had injustice baked in from the start, because they didn’t get to draw their borders. But, he continued, states like Kenya have renounced war, understanding that even wars for justice don’t advance it.

And I think this insight is one we’ve lost in the age of human rights, during which we have adopted a more warlike idealism that turns out not to make the world a better place, and sometimes a worse one.

[voidtwins]

Give Phil new set of books that he like with a lil kiss on the forehead u3u

-DEFINITELY KLAI, I SHALL NOT HIDE THE FACT IS ME LIKE YOU KORY >:D

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[hamontheartist]

‘Cuprum Our Queen #2’

“Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn’t.”

Phil Klay

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Antonio Velardo shares: Finding a Moral Center in This Era of War by David Marchese

By David Marchese “The idea that we must close our eyes to suffering that is not ideologically useful is morally degrading,” says the acclaimed author and military veteran Phil Klay. Published: November 26, 2023 at 05:01AM from NYT Magazine https://ift.tt/lgqzZ8O via IFTTT

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America.When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime experiences--for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in war--from the revolutionary war of our founding, to the civil war that ended slavery, to the two world wars that launched America as a superpower. What did the current wars say about who we are as a country, and how should we respond as citizens?Unlike in previous eras of war, relatively few Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible conflicts of the post-9/11 world; in fact, increasingly few people are even aware they are still going on. It is as if these wars are a dark star with a strong

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Golden State are champions once again, topping Boston 103-90 on Thursday  evening (Friday  early morning AEST) for their  4th title in the last  8  periods, with Stephen Curry  called the NBA Finals MVP.

Curry  racked up 34 points for the Warriors, who  declared the  franchise business’s  7th championship  on the whole.

 As well as  this set  finished a  trip like none  various other, after a run of five consecutive finals, then a  drop to the bottom of the NBA, and  currently a return to  success just two  periods after having the league’s worst  document.

For Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala, it’s a fourth championship. The first three rings  was available in 2015, 2017  and also 2018, when Golden State were dynastic  and also made five  successive  journeys to the finals.

Injuries,  consisting of ones that sidelined Thompson for 2 1/2 years, and  lineup  adjustments changed  every little thing.  However this  period, with Thompson returning around the midway point, the Warriors were  ultimately back.

Back  ahead,  also. Champions, again,  refuting the storied Celtics what would have been their record 18th  champion, one that  would certainly have  enabled Boston to  damage a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league  background.

This  story for the Warriors  finished much differently than what was their  newest finals appearance  versus Toronto in 2019, one that saw Kevin Durant tear his Achilles tendon in Game 5 and then Thompson tear his ACL in what became the Raptors’ title-clincher in Game 6.

The  results of that loss was  worsened by Durant’s decision to leave that  summer season in  cost-free agency to  sign up with the Brooklyn Nets  as well as Thompson’s own Achilles injury while  restoring his knee injury.

It thrust a Golden State  group  right into a rebuild that  ended up being a reload.

The Warriors  utilized their two-year hiatus from the NBA’s  greatest stages to retool their roster-- adding a past No. 1 draft pick in Andrew Wiggins, who  mastered his  very first finals,  in addition to another  climbing  celebrity in Jordan Poole.

 All of it clicked. For Golden State  instructor Steve Kerr, it’s a  nine championship overall after winning five as a  gamer.

He’s the sixth coach to  catch four titles, joining Phil Jackson, Red Auerbach, John Kundla, Gregg Popovich and  Rub Riley.

Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 34 points. Al Horford added 19. Jayson Tatum  completed with 13  factors, but shot just six of 18 from the field.

Boston  additionally committed 22  turn overs, dropping to 1-8 this postseason when  devoting 16 or more. It was  simply their fifth  loss in 22 title-series  looks.

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BOSTON (AP) The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, topping the Boston Celtics 103-90 on Thursday night for their fourth title in the last eight seasons.

Stephen Curry scored 34 points and was named the NBA Finals MVP as the Warriors claimed the franchise’s seventh championship overall. And this one completed a journey like none other, after a run of five consecutive finals, then a plummet to the bottom of the NBA, and now a return to greatness just two seasons after having the league’s worst record.

”We found a way to just get it done,” Curry said after the Warriors accepted the championship trophy and celebrated on the court.

With tears in his eyes and hoarse with emotion, Curry struggled to speak as he explained what allowed the Warriors to capture their latest crown.

”It’s part of a championship pedigree, our experience,” he said. ”We built this for 10-11 years. That means a lot when you get to this stage.”

For Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala, it’s a fourth championship. The first three rings came in 2015, 2017 and 2018, when Golden State was dynastic and made five consecutive trips to the finals.

”They’re all unique, they’re all special,” coach Steve Kerr said of the multiple titles. ”This one might have been the most unlikely. … It takes a group effort to get it done and we had a great group.”

Injuries, including ones that sidelined Thompson for 2 1/2 years, and roster changes changed everything. But this season, with Thompson returning around the midway point, the Warriors were finally back.

Back on top, too. Champions, again, denying the storied Celtics what would have been their record 18th championship, one that would have allowed Boston to break a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history.

This tale for the Warriors ended much differently than what was their most recent finals appearance against Toronto in 2019, one that saw Kevin Durant tear his Achilles tendon in Game 5 and then Thompson tear his ACL in what became the Raptors’ title-clincher in Game 6.

The aftermath of that loss was exacerbated by Durant’s decision to leave that summer in free agency to join the Brooklyn Nets and Thompson’s own Achilles injury while rehabilitating his knee injury.

”It all paid off,” Thompson said. ”It was dog days, a lot of tears shed. … You knew it was a possibility, but to see it in real-time. . It’s crazy.”

It thrust a Golden State team into a rebuild that became a reload. The Warriors used their two-year hiatus from the NBA’s biggest stages to retool their roster – adding a past No. 1 draft pick in Andrew Wiggins, who excelled in his first finals, along with another rising star in Jordan Poole.

”This one hits different for sure knowing what the last three years meant, what it’s been like,” Curry said. ”Injuries, the changing of the guard, rosters, the young guys. … Now, we got four championships. Me, Dray, Klay and Andre.

”Finally got that bad boy,” Curry added, referring to the MVP trophy. ”It’s special. … Everybody mattered in that process.”

Yes, it all clicked.

For Kerr, it’s the ninth championship overall after winning five as a player. He’s the sixth coach to capture four titles, joining Phil Jackson, Red Auerbach, John Kundla, Gregg Popovich and Pat Riley.

Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 34 points but Jayson Tatum finished with just 13, shooting just 6 of 18 from the field. Boston also committed 22 turnovers, dropping to 1-8 this postseason when committing 16 or more.

It was just the fifth defeat in 22 title-series appearances for Boston, which turned its season around to have a chance at this crown. Boston was 25-25 after 50 games, then went on a tear to get to the finals and nearly claim what would have been just the franchise’s second championship since 1986.

It was the third consecutive season where things were affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and while things were closer to normal, pictures and video of the championship celebration will serve as a forever reminder that the virus was still an issue.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver could not be at the game because he remained in the league’s health and safety protocols related to the virus. The redesigned Larry O’Brien Trophy – the golden souvenir given to the NBA champions – was presented to the Warriors by deputy commissioner Mark Tatum instead.

Boston trailed by as many as 22 points but battled back and cut the deficit to eight. A Jaylen Brown 3-pointer made it 86-78 with 5:33 to play, but the Warriors never relinquished the lead.

”Just couldn’t withstand their runs,” Celtics centre Robert Williams said. ”Messing up. They played harder and won tonight.”

Curry sent Boston fans streaming toward the exits with his sixth 3 of the night to give the Warriors a commanding 15-point lead, 96-81 – then clasped his hands against his face as he ran back down the court, signalling an end to Boston’s hopes of extending the series.

”We’ve had so many great players,” Kerr said, ”but Steph, ultimately is why this run happens.”

TIP-INS

Warriors: Went 19 of 45 from the 3-point line. . Improved to 20-1 when Green makes a 3-pointer.

Celtics: Boston’s 13-point loss marked the first finals without a single-digit game. … Former Celtic Ray Allen, a member of Boston’s last championship team in 2008, sat courtside. Hall of Famer Robert Parish was also in attendance.

A RUN, AND A RESPONSE

The Celtics came out firing, riding the energy from a deafening TD Garden crowd to take an early 14-2 lead.

Golden State wasn’t rattled and responded with a 35-8 run that stretched into the second quarter on the way to building as much as a 22-point lead. The Warriors outscored the Celtics 27-17 for the period and carried a 54-39 lead into the second half as some Celtics fans booed the home team as they left the court.

Boston fought back in the third, but the Warriors found their range from beyond the arc, connecting on six 3s in the quarter.

Courtesy: CBS Sports