“It’s not like you just send all these boys and young girls to war and they come back and they can just rebuild your country,” said Alaskan veteran Bob Stark, who describes his Army service in Iraq and its aftermath in his new book 'Warflower.'
Bob Stark poses with his new memoir, “Warflower,” at his home in Happy Valley on Nov. 10, 2022.
Stark’s jump marked the beginning of the first of two tours in Iraq, a subject that he talks candidly about in his new memoir, “Warflower.” The book is a warts-and-all look at Stark’s tumultuous childhood growing up in Nome and Seward, his combat experience and his struggles with substance abuse and PTSD. He began writing to cope with some of his traumatic experiences.
“It was full of passion,” he said. “However, it was also full of a lot of finger pointing, a lot of anger, name-calling and vulgarity.” “I remember the time we were doing a patrol in the Fertile Crescent down there. And we were driving through a farmer’s fields, just ruining their crops. And I thought to myself, that would be such an incredible life, to live out in the country, and grow food.”After graduating from Evergreen State, Stark returned to Alaska in 2012, to buy a farm of his own. His 20-acre farm is in Happy Valley, about 50 miles north of Homer. He runs it with his wife and two children.
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