Burn With Purpose
“B U R N W I T H PURPOSE” This fire now consumes me; in thundering fury, falls silent my souls lament.
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I alone it’s genesis, self-righteous cure;
Quell my thoughts and torments, in self destruction.... Read More...
I Had to Kill my Self, before I Killed Myself
I speak not ignorantly, but with unfortunate intimacy. My father killed himself when I was 16; I have lost brothers from suicide due to the War and transition, I myself have tried and struggled with those demon... Read More...
Youth Saved Me
"Growing up my dad was working 2-3 jobs, ran his own business, & also drove long hall. He died 2 months after my 16th birthday, I could have gotten into drugs & partying. Gotten into the wrong crowd... Read More...
The Forever War, Living with a TBI: Part 2, Transitioning
“These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book How do I not take this home... Read More...
The Forever War, Living with a TBI: Part 1, Relationships
"Memories are just where you laid them
Drag the waters till the depths give up their dead
What did you expect to find
Was there something you left behind
Don't you remember
Anything I said when I said, ... Read More...
The Forever War, Living with TBI : Introduction
"Hi, my name is Jordan and I am about one IED short of being fully retarded." Anyone who met me or knows me will attest to the fact that when you meet me or we have known each other for a period of time, a... Read More...
I Never Returned Home
Stay tuned peeps! @laird_abides: "Keep an eye out!!! 👀 A brand new three part series, about my experiences and struggles living with a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). It will be a raw, honest, and vulnerab... Read More...
Once More into the Fray
Once more into the Fray,
Into the last good fight I’ll ever know,
Live and Die on this day.
Live and Die on this day.
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I have spent a lifetime of service protecting the weak, carrying the downtrodden.... Read More...
These violent delights have violent ends
"Men always quick to issue violence and slow to administer peace never understood the true essence of a certain power and its fields of influence. It begins somewhere along a wave of restraint and builds to... Read More...
Envy the Country With Heroes
If we do not take our roles as men and women, particularly in regards to the veteran community as if it were a matter of survival or extinction, then we will suffer the same fate as empires and dynasties pa... Read More...