Vivid, intimate storytelling by service members and military-connected civilians that provides the emotional context for our reporting.
War brings about all sorts of emotions. The darkest ones get never-ending attention. Yet this was the happiest day of my life.
Noelle Wiehe went to a veterans resource fair and soon found herself talking to a financial advisor who suddenly asked her if she’d been sexually assaulted.
When Melissa A. Sullivan’s high school sweetheart went to war, he came home dramatically changed — and she believed it was her job to make him better.
My dad and I had an ideal father-daughter relationship. He was my hero, and I was Daddy’s little girl. I didn’t fear him, but I feared disappointing him.
Still in desert camouflage, I picked her up carefully, gave her a gentle hug and a kiss—my first kiss to my first child.
They Did Everything They Could to Make Her Fail. But They Could Not Break Her.
|in Reflections | Captain R. VanHer fate was sealed before she even stepped off the plane. They were not going to let a female line officer tell them what to do.