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I tried to avoid a lot of things
that happened to me in Iraq
or that I experienced in Iraq.
I found out very quickly
that even though I slept at a Wal-mart parking lot,
I was not able to go inside a Wal-mart
because of the crowds,
so I started avoiding large crowds.
I started avoiding having
my back to the doors or windows.
I always had to face the door or the window,
have my back to the wall.
I started avoiding,
I started avoiding Middle Eastern people.
If I would see them on the street
or at the grocery store,
I would literally
walk the other direction
because, and very far away from them,
because I didn't know,
I mean, they could have been,
they could have not been from Iraq.
They could have been from somewhere else,
but in my eyes,
they were the enemy
so I had to get away from them.
I even avoided my friends that I went to Iraq with
for a very long time
because I knew that if I started talking to them,
I would start having flashbacks
or remembering things that happened,
so, basically,
I wanted just to be alone.