Waking up Afraid

HM2 Gliponeo and HM3 Weaver somewhere in Iraq.

“The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears.” David Whyte

My greatest times of fear were during my deployment to Iraq with the U.S. Marines as a Navy Corpsman. We were the Marines’ first line of medical care.

For me, fear really sank in when we disembarked the plane we’d flown on for more than 18 h…