Blue Cascade By Mike Scotti

Reading the book Blue Cascade by Mike Scotti, who by the way is a brilliant writer, was a very whole-hearted and touching story. This book was about a Marine who returned home from a two-year tour duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. He didn’t feel the same when he returned home and knew that something was wrong. He suffered from post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but after a while he overcame it. As he began to heal, he said, “ The plan was to go to graduate school to get an MBA. Then to Wall Street to make as much money as quickly as possible so that I could retire young and travel indefinitely.” He wasn’t doing this for the money to flash around and buy big houses, but to have money so that there would be at least some time in his life when he didn’t belong to someone else.
28). He goal was to do this at a young age, not an old man like the rest of them. Further in the book Mike was convinced to turn his video footage in to a documentary about Iraq and in order to do so he has to revisit some of the place he had gone in the footage to get signatures from the people that show there face clearly to sign off saying its okay with them to show there face in the documentary. Doing this documentary Mike describes each part in the footage to Kristian what it was like dearing that time, by doing so I believe it becomes a lot for him to talk about it. I could only image what he has gone through. I mean listen to him tell his story is so what reality check for me. I mean you never really know what a veteran goes though when they come back to