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I didn’t deserve life any more than the guys who hadn’t made it. How the hell could I be celebrating at a time like this?
I left Moscow feeling as if we’d accomplished what we set out to do. Hope for a free ‘information architecture’ reigned—for a while, then shattered.
I feel a sense of bereavement that I know, even in the moment, is outsized. But in a few weeks, my family will not own this home anymore.
I wondered whether the lighter bags held small soldiers or only body parts. I kept no count of the work. I still don’t know how many we carried.
It was a story of the troops who make it home, of those who make the ultimate sacrifice, and the families who receive a life-altering knock on the door.
We All Have Stories. After All, We Didn’t Just Watch History, We Made It.
|in Reflections | Dan WoodwardInspiration abounds, and in uniform, it is everywhere, every day, because every day we do things of consequence for our nation.