America has already lost over 1,200 soldiers since 2003 and the images of the four Blackwater private security contractors ambushed and killed, their burned bodies are dragged through the streets and then hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates River was fresh in our minds. Now I had to endure emotional and physical pain that I never would have imagined would hit the homefront. Life is stranger than fiction and what you are about to read will forever give you nothing short of a "healthy dose of cynicism" as my criminal attorney told me. Yes...I was charged with a 3rd degree felony and you are about to read the first of my families three tour trilogy.