I Wouldn’t Wish War on My Worst Enemy by Jim Lommasson

A collection of photographs by American soldiers upon their return from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. The book includes 176 photographs and quotations by the soldiers and their families. Also included is a tipped-in envelope with an essay by a mother of a twice-deployed Marine who said, “Mom, I wouldn’t wish war on my worst enemy.” The end papers are scans of the last Iraqi newspaper published while Saddam Hussein was in power. There are no photographs or writing by myself. Lommasson tells us, “I want this book to feel like it is its own thing, with no outside authorship. I would like an unsuspecting viewer to wonder where the book came from, almost as if it fell out of the sky. “The only credits are the names of the soldiers and family members after their quote. An excerpt from the essay by a mother of a twice-deployed Marine who said, “Mom, I wouldn’t wish war on my worst enemy.” "The steam has dissipated from my coffee cup as I strain to write this letter to the three of you. Yo