by Shara Hegr, A Wounded Warrior Wife As I parked the car I was overcome with a mixture of emotions. I was anxious, excited, fearful, and Continue Reading
Operation Enduring Freedom
Four Lessons Learned from a Latrine Stall in Iraq
by Duane France It’s not what you think. Even if you didn’t think it before, you may be thinking it now, because I brought it up, but it’s still not Continue Reading
Men of God, a Splash of Red
by Rob Sanders_____ Do you remember the splash of red high and to the right?Above our heads in the ravine?We wanted to look,Dreaded to look. Hated to Continue Reading
Why I Ain’t No Fortunate Son
by anonymous It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son...[i] And that, for me, and to be frank for many others like me, was how Continue Reading
The Only Way to Understand It… is to Live It
Each drop seemed to bring a sense of chaotic peace. It seems to always take me back to another time in another life. I sat and sifted through my Continue Reading
A Home in the Motion
by Kevin Duffy You start to wake up. You ease into a haze of consciousness and feel the realness of the world outside the dream you’ve already Continue Reading
Nothing Prepares You for War
by Noah Smith, The War Horse. We were sailing into the sky, the loud buzz of the plane engine beating against the air. We flew over a vast desert Continue Reading
My First Engagement with the Enemy
I don't always know what will trigger a flashback of my deployment to Afghanistan, but today, it happened to be the song at the end of the 2020 Mulan Continue Reading
Rage and Sadness
by Aaron Smith I’m torn Torn between two worlds, two emotions Two paradigms Cut in two by my past, and the healing that offered me solace Continue Reading
The Ramp
I was but maybe a month or two old, not truly but in war we are reborn. A newborn thrust into this world, cold and alone. I was riding that Continue Reading
Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and our Failure in Afghanistan
by William Tetzlaff Success for an insurgency is winning over the people. This has been true from Washington having 90% of the colonies' people Continue Reading
The Most Difficult Thing about Being a Veteran
There were lots of things that were difficult about my 38 years in the military. For me personally most of those centered around not being able to Continue Reading