IRAQ WAR CULTURE REVIEW. This is not the story of an accidental soldier. Crawford, like his fellow soldiers, volunteered for the National Guard and knew the terms of enlistment. The tough-guy ethos of his prose its Im fucked, were all fucked attitude is avoidance. Crawford never protested, even though he knew the war was wrong. There was no accident here, not even with the third-grader he mowed down.