Vivid, intimate storytelling by service members and military-connected civilians that provides the emotional context for our reporting.
“My parents, like most Chinese immigrants, valued education as the ultimate achievement,” writes veteran Hunter Lu. “The military was for dumb people.”
Thibaut Delloue rushed a suicidal sailor to shore after he asked for help on deployment only to see his shipmate ostracized and labeled a malinger.
A journalist learns of death that paralleled the moment he took his favorite picture.
Uncle Wally’s service was lore. And the monument—erected in France—loomed in her imagination. A military spouse traces her family’s generations at war.
A father reconnects with his ex-wife during their son’s graduation from Army basic training. “I told her she was a good mother.”
“I Hope She’s Scarred for Life” — Recalling My Time as a Blackwater Mercenary
|Morgan LeretteBlackwater employees were “integral” to rebuilding Iraq, but with limited oversight, contractors had “no ethical obligation” to the country’s citizens.