Eleven months into a scheduled 13-month deployment, the Marinesin Mike Walden's unit began carrying a deck of cards in the field.They were 52 days out from going home; for each day that passed, acard was pulled from the deck, memorializing the end that was insight.
By the end of the card deck, Walden, a .50-caliber machinegunner, and his unit weren't going anywhere.
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