LIVED THROUGH THIS
Reflections on 20 Years of War
A veteran’s musings on leaving Afghanistan and the killing fields
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6 min readMay 5, 2021
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman
