This month marks 25 years since the attack on Sept. 11, which started the Global War on Terrorism. A quarter century. I have three kids who weren’t even alive for any of it. To them, it’s just a chapter in a history book. For many, a war that shaped my life has faded into the […]
Michael Pereira
Michael is a Marine Corps combat veteran who served as a team leader in Iraq across three deployments. He is a private investigator, a committed Catholic, the father of three, and the owner of Tactical Elite LLC, a veteran-owned tactical gear company. He lives in Texas, where he grew up.
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A Marine Went on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land to Heal from War. War Found Him Anyway
The sirens started at midnight. I’d been asleep in my hotel room in Jerusalem when I was jolted awake by the piercing blast of sirens screaming into the night. Not the distant warning we’d heard days earlier when Houthi rockets flew toward Israel, but the full-throated city-wide alert that meant one thing: incoming. My phone […]
