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A Teenage War Resister in Israel
• February 24, 2019
• 3,000 Words • Leave a Comment
Hilel Garmi’s phone is going straight to voicemail and all I’m hoping is that he’s not back in prison. I’ll soon learn that he is. Prison 6 is a military prison. It’s situated in the Israeli coastal town of Atlit, a short walk from the Mediterranean Sea and less than an hour’s drive from Hilel’s... Read More
The Stories War Tells Me
A Veteran and Parent Can’t Stop Thinking About the War He Fought
• November 11, 2018
• 2,200 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
I’m here in Chicago, 7,000 miles and 15 years away from Jalalabad, a desolate town in southwestern Afghanistan. Yet sometimes it seems to me as if it were yesterday, or even tomorrow, and anything but thousands of miles distant. There are moments when it feels like I never left -- or maybe I mean, when... Read More
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The Wars in Our Schools
An Ex-Army Ranger Finds a New Mission
• April 7, 2016
• 3,900 Words • Leave a Comment
Early each New Year’s Day I head for Lake Michigan with a handful of friends. We look for a quiet stretch of what, only six months earlier, was warm Chicago beach. Then we trudge through knee-deep snow in bathing suits and boots, fighting wind gusts and hangovers. Sooner or later, we arrive where the snowpack... Read More
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Letter to a Young Army Ranger (From an Old One)
Why the War on Terror Shouldn’t Be Your Battle
• January 13, 2015
• 3,100 Words • 34 Comments • Reply
Dear Aspiring Ranger, You’ve probably just graduated from high school and you’ve undoubtedly already signed an Option 40 contract guaranteeing you a shot at the Ranger indoctrination program (R.I.P.). If you make it through R.I.P. you’ll surely be sent off to fight in the Global War on Terror. You’ll be part of what I often... Read More
Thank You for Your Valor, Thank You for Your Service, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You…
Still on the Thank-You Tour-of-Duty Circuit, 13 Years Later
• October 26, 2014
• 2,700 Words • Leave a Comment
Last week, in a quiet indie bookstore on the north side of Chicago, I saw the latest issue of Rolling Stone resting on a chrome-colored plastic table a few feet from a barista brewing a vanilla latte. A cold October rain fell outside. A friend of mine grabbed the issue and began flipping through it.... Read More