1/2/2024 0 Comments Jake schick scars![]() I just think the government needs to do their part when you’re all messed up and you’re home from the war. I thought it’d be a great honor to serve my country and I still think it’s the best job in the world. My grandfather was a scout sniper on Iwo Jima. I could have got a scholarship to a small DII school, but I made my mind up. We could have beat pretty much any DII college football team out there. I just got a feeling in my gut and I just knew something was going to go down, and lo and behold, it did. ![]() Whoever I could get a hold of the night before. I called my mom, my dad, my brother, my sister. I didn’t know what but I did have a bad feeling. I just knew something bad was going to happen. Was there anything about that day that seemed off to you? Did you have any bad feelings about that patrol? I started getting weak, I was bleeding out so I was pumping myself up, “Dude, you can do this, you can make it 12 more minutes.” I remember asking one of the guys in the flight crew, “How long?” He said 12 minutes. Yeah, when I took my first breath after I couldn’t breathe for a couple minutes, I thought, “Done deal, I’m not dying today.” My staff sergeant came over, helped get me on the bird, kissed me on the forehead and said, “I’ll see you soon, Devil Dog.” And that was it. I could tell by the look in their eyes they didn’t think I was going to make it. Everybody was just saying words of encouragement but I was pretty mad they were talking. I just remember they would wrap me and I’d bleed through the bandage, they’d take it off, wrap me again, just a constant process while we were waiting for the bird to get there. When they took me to the command post, the doc started working on me, the corpsman and some other Marines were trying to dress me up the best they could, but they were having trouble stopping the bleeding out of my left leg and my left arm. I remember everything except hearing the blast. It pretty much blew up right beneath me, and for some reason or another I never lost consciousness or went into shock. What was going through your mind when you got hit? Your “Alive Day” came pretty quickly after you arrived in Iraq. benefits front, when they too return home. His hope is that they don’t face the same hardships as he did, especially on the V.A. “My left leg was broken with compound fractures, my right leg was broken, my foot was crushed, my left arm was broken with compound fractures, and one of my bones got blown out of my arm.” Three years, two hospitals and 46 surgeries later, Schick is still fighting for his brothers-and-sisters-in-arms. “I can’t even remember the day I arrived, I just remember the day I got hit,” he says. “In our cases, it’s just begun.” Schick, a 24 year old machine gunner who served with the 1/23rd Marines, Bravo Company, met his alive day on September 20, 2004-just a month after he arrived in Iraq-when his Humvee ran over a pressurized anti-tank bomb while running a security patrol outside Al Asad. “The fight doesn’t stop when you get home,” Cpl. Premiering on September 9, Gandolfini’s enthralling doc is an intimate look into the harsh physical and emotional toll exacted on Iraq vets by their “Alive Day,” the day they barely escaped death on the battlefield. As Tony Soprano’s reign as the don of cable was coming to an oh-so-clever close, the Emmy-winning actor sat down with 10 severely wounded troops and listened to their stories for his first project as a producer Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq. And still: unless you understand these statistics at a human level they’re just numbers in a string of news stories. ![]() troops have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and seven times as many have returned home wounded. The numbers are dizzying-nearly 4,000 U.S. Michael Slenske’s last Back Home From Iraq piece was an interview with Marine reservist Todd Bowers. Make your own Six-Word tee or choose among our favorites.īack Home with Jacob Schick from HBO’s Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq Our witty, wordy, fast, fun game for of all ages.Ī new six-worder each day-and spot to write your own. BOOKS Our bestselling Six-Word Memoir® books, graphic novels, and more.Available as a Grand Central graphic novel.Ī true story about having a baby Christen Clifford & David Heatley The illustrated diary of a single Jewish artist making her own way through life, work, and psychoanalysis.Ī fictionalized story set in 2011 on the future of citizen journalism, media, and the war on terror. ![]() True neighborhood tales by today's leading comics artists and writers. Now an expanded book from Pantheon.Īmerican Splendor creator Harvey Pekar has teamed with four terrific artists for his first ongoing webcomics series. The true story about six different people who survive Hurricane Katrina. ![]()
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