A Soldier's New Battle

Rick Loomis

Los Angeles Times

Anderson reacts during a concert after singer Tracey Lawrence thanked him for 'the ultimate sacrifice.' He says that even if he had not been wounded, he would not have stayed in the Army when his enlistment expired. “I hated it,” he says. “It just wasn’t for me. . . . I’ve seen vans with seven people in them with their legs just hanging off, body parts everywhere. And I don’t need to see that anymore.”

Rick Loomis, "A Soldier's New Battle," in POYi Archive, Item #46019, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/46019 (accessed November 23, 2024).