“I Still Find Hope”—Purple Fingers, Steel Rain, and Getting “Messy” in a Combat Zone
Service members have voted by mail since World War II. “My nation trusted me,” writes Joshua Manning, who cast ballots while deployed to several countries.
About Joshua Manning
Josh Manning enlisted in the U.S. Army in April 2002 as an intelligence analyst. He served in Iraq from 2004 through 2005 with the First Infantry Division, and again in 2007 and 2011 as intelligence support to U.S. Special Operations Forces. He worked as a counterterrorism analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2009 through 2013 as a civilian. Josh lives in Olympia, Washington, and is a graduate of Evergreen State College. Josh has written articles for Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and the L.A. Times, and is working on a novel about the Iraq war.
