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"These young men represent what is more or less America's first generation of disposable children. More than half of the guys in the platoon come from broken homes and were raised by absentee, single, working parents. Many are on more intimate terms with video games, reality TV shows and Internet porn than they are with their own parents... They see the invasion of Iraq as simply another campaign in a war without end, which is pretty much what their commanders and their president have already told them."

The author of the book was embedded with the marines of First Recon for two months. First Recon was the group of 23 marines who spearheaded the invasion, taking pretty much the shittiest route to baghdad.