I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.
I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.
I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.
The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.
The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.
What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, 'You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people's lives, that's something to talk about.'
But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.