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“Why did you fall asleep at the wheel?” My answer: It’s a pitfall of being a juggler in the largest ongoing circus in the world—the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Good things happened after the bad,” writes Eric Chandler. But 20 years on, there is a painful contrast to the national unity that followed the attacks.
“I’ll never forget his screams echoing off the block walls of the barracks. No one came to investigate. No one ever came to investigate.”
Four days after he returned home from deployment, our first lockdown in England began. We went from extreme separation to extreme togetherness.
Like an aircraft struggling to move the weight of two decades’ worth of cargo, the news reports lurch forward in fits and starts. I recognize the familiar names—Lashkar Gah, Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad, Helmand, Ghazni, Sheberghan, Bagram, and others—as the aircraft gains speed, well on its way to becoming an unstoppable mass hurtling toward the end of […]
“Hold on to something!”—A Moment that Shifted the Fate of the USS Samuel B. Roberts Crew
|in Reflections | Alex Perez“The explosion created a 20-foot hole along the bottom of the ship’s hull. I saw a ball of flame and felt a rush of hot air on my face and arms.”