Two days after I returned from Afghanistan, I encountered him in the dairy aisle of an upscale grocery story. Even from fifty feet away, I could tell he was irate. Face flushed and body trembling, he sauntered past the gourmet […]Read More ›

A few weeks before we bound their wrists with zip tie and told them to sit in the dirt and wait until the Afghani police arrived, a few weeks before their families came and begged us to let them out […]Read More ›

Sergeant First Class Rocky Herrera, Sergeant Cory Clark, and Sergeant Bryce Howard died in Jaji Province, Afghanistan on the morning of August 28, 2007, beside a bridge that they were constructing over a dry streambed. I was sitting in my […]Read More ›

Two minutes before it happened, I was twenty feet in the air, inside the skeleton of a guard tower that overlooked a police compound in southwest Afghanistan. It was a Wednesday in May and the air was damp and laced […]Read More ›

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was in a freshmen computer science lab at West Point. The door was open. Around nine a.m., we heard TVs being turned to Fox News in nearby classrooms. A colonel in a Class […]Read More ›