Blood for Honor
The cover of Gabriel Justice’s new book, “Blood for Honor.” Art by Ramon Dimas Every day for four and a half months, Gabriel Justice, 32, wrote down his darkest, deepest secrets and memories. And then he decided to publish them. “I was going to print 15 to 20 copies and lock it up,” said the Manhattan Beach resident while sitting outside a coffee shop downtown. “Wait until I was 85, 90 and say, ‘Here’s a piece of me,’ for the family.” But as he read and edited what he wrote, he began to change his mind. “It doesn’t belong to me,” he said. “It belongs to everybody. I have no right to keep it for myself.” Writing his story wasn’t without risk. Reliving his traumatic childhood in Saudi Arabia and his two tours of duty as a Marine in Iraq brought back the symptoms of his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, landing him in the hospital several times during the course of writing “Blood for Honor,” which he self-published and plans to officially launch at an event on Nov. 8 at the Shade Hotel. His greater purpose forced him through the challenge. The 2011 capture and incarceration of his friend Amir Hekmati, a former Marine, while visiting family in Iran, inspired Justice to write the story…
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