“They let us talk. They listened.” Adapting to Survive a War I Never Understood
“Elders questioned our motives, what we wanted, when we would leave,” writes a veteran of Afghanistan. “They let us talk. They listened.”
About Joe Stanek
Upon graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Joe Stanek deployed to Afghanistan with the 1st Infantry Division. He has a master’s of fine arts from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, where he’s working on his first novel.
