{"id":27095,"date":"2022-05-30T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.nrs.com\/?p=27095"},"modified":"2022-05-30T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T04:41:11","slug":"josiah-and-the-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.nrs.com\/duct-tape\/2022\/05\/30\/josiah-and-the-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Josiah and the Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"970\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-ZfZpbyh6o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMaybe a lot of people haven&#8217;t had that power, in a sense, you know\u2026 that literal feeling and ability every day to take a life or have it taken&#8230; There&#8217;s kind of no limit to what you might be willing to do to, I mean, to keep yourself alive or your friends alive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>War stories are like clickbait, as a society, we want to ask the questions\u2014click the headlines\u2014but are we ready to hear the honest answers? Josiah Ching, a Hawaiian native and Iraq war veteran, is ready to tell his story.<\/p>\n<p>From shouldering the responsibility to do what it takes to survive, to shouldering the burden of then surviving, a soldier\u2019s re-entry to the world they left behind is a lot to endure. Some can\u2019t bear it. The lucky ones, like Josiah, find ways to cope. 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