With the nation marking the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war, The Am Law Daily contacted lawyers with personal connections to a conflict that claimed the lives of roughly 4,500 Americans and untold Iraqis for their thoughts after the invasion.

The American Lawyer‘s Ben Hallman reported in 2007 on the experience of several attorneys in the war zone, and traveled to Iraq a year later for a feature story about rule of law reforms in the country. Hallman has moved on, but we reached out to some of those to whom he spoke, as well as other lawyers whom we’ve interviewed in recent years, about time they’ve spent in war-torn lands.