With modern technology and medicine, the armed forces has a conflict survival rate of over 10-1. this means that the US Armed Forces has over 30,000 Veterans wounded in the current conflicts and are a significant legacy, often overlooked. For many of those soldiers, the feeling is, You never think something like this will happen. Then it happens. Suck it up. This collection of oil portraits is meant to portray the face of these soldiers and act as a very subjective record of our times and people.