It comes from above and below.Nature. Death. The Shaggy Dog.Diogenes, what is our nature?The dog says it is the spirit of the soul.The spirit says it Continue Reading
Escorting the Shadow Walkers
By Betty Schram My flight was on time, and security was moving at a fast pace. I had hit a day in what I’ve soft-calculated to be approximately the Continue Reading
Calling Veterans into the Machine
By Ryan Mimna It was January 2022 in the middle of the pandemic. It was a dark period for me. I had graduated college in fall 2019 and was using my Continue Reading
A Lesson of History: People of True Christian Faith Are Always Outnumbered
By Darin Gaub “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. Continue Reading
What to Do When You Just Can’t Talk About It
By Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta's blog, "Life After War" and is republished with the author's Continue Reading
Veterans Going Back to Work After War – The Hidden Struggle
By Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta's blog, "Life After War" and is republished with the author's Continue Reading
Leave No One Behind
By Darin Gaub Understanding Personnel Recovery and Combat Search and Rescue in the military: it’s a national strategic mission and is resourced Continue Reading
Memory of You
By Ryan Mimna Grains of sand on the beachThoughts of yourselfInnumerable to countBut known in itselfBeautiful are our soulsEven if they can't Continue Reading
Darker Sights that Blight the Soul
Truly, it can take its toll Dark sightsRestless nightsForlorn thoughtsBlack and whiteIs beholden to greyNo wrong or rightMight makes rightPlight of Continue Reading
Inversion of Loyalty and Conspiracy of Mediocrity
By Sam Yudin Nothing does more to corrupt and undermine mission accomplishment or team success and well-being than an inversion of loyalty or a Continue Reading
My Body Knew Before My Mind Did
By Ryan Mimna Author’s note: I wrote this while recovering from a broken foot during my first semester at Penn. Around the same time, a Ranger Continue Reading
Love & Puzzles
By Sam Yudin The portrait of a sergeant major is usually painted the same way: a crusty, stubborn old soldier. Someone who clawed their way through Continue Reading