U.S. Marine and novelist Phil Klay took to Twitter on Thursday to voice his disapproval of the House vote approving a bill that increases restrictions on Syrian refugees entering the U.S.
Klay served in Iraq from 2007 to 2008, and the novel he wrote upon return, Redeployment, won the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. “It’s only during frightening times when you get to find out if your country really deserves to call itself the ‘home of the brave’,” Klay wrote in his series of Tweets. Read his thoughts in full below:
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