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Everybody endures hardships in life. But the deploying Soldier experiences one of the starkest examples of prolonged adversity that is at the same time, universally recognizable. Gabriel Tolliver’s Embrace the Suck: 366 Days of Strength, Courage, Inspiration, Wisdom, and Hope is a collection of writings meant to help one in such a “life-altering experiences,” as the author states it. Essentially, Tolliver compiled 366 different sayings—one for each day of his deployment to Afghanistan.We tend to be taught to make lemonade from lemons, to find joy in the dreadful. Yet the Soldiers who coined the phrase in Tolliver’s title Iraq .... Read more
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