Quotes from Eric Blehm

Back in civilization I begin the questioning," wrote Randy. "What to do with life? What kind of life? In wilderness this ceases; the questions aren't answered, they dissolve.

And so the moral of his fabled travels read like Santiago's, the boy in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: Randy had traveled around the world in search of treasure and came home to find it in his own backyard. He

There is no such thing as a beloved captain in Special Forces," his mentor Dennis Holloway had told him. "But you can take care of your men, lead from the front, and they'll respect you for doing what's right.