Most memories from kindergarten are hard to recall, but one day that is as vivid as ever is September 11, 2001. The infamous day is one that Americans will never forget; the chapter “Bodies” in Redeployment by Phil Klay tells the story of a young enlisted Marine who comes back home from a deployment in Iraq. Upon his arrival, the Marine finds that he has no place in the civilian world because he has nothing to relate to. In the section “Bodies,” Phil Klay says, “For a long time I was angry. I didn’t want to talk about Iraq, so I wouldn’t tell anyone I’d been.” This quote shows Klay is a contemporary author because of his “surgical” writing style; he gets straight to the point. The eighteen year old Marine comes back home to find that he
