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(1/2) On Oct. 28, 1951, Lt. Lloyd Burke, with the 1st Cavalry Division, earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War. Burke led his men on a charge up a hill, knocking out several enemy positions and, although wounded, killed approximately 100 enemy soldiers.

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Three times the moderator had to ask Trump and Harris about Afghanistan in the presidential debate before they used it to attack the other: "The world’s superpower had, in the end, dropped Afghanistan as swiftly and wholeheartedly as it had picked it up." bit.ly/3AeqLvS

The sun never sets on the United States military 🌎

"Ghost stories serve only the living. They transmute specific tragedies into universal lessons, and in the process, give us a way to make sense of a changing world." Elizabeth Friend on the North Carolina myth of Lydia and how folklore evolves over generations: longreads.com/2024/10/29/lyd…

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I spent the better part of 2 years of my life in Iraq. 4,492 U.S. other service members didn’t come home. ~200,000 Iraqi died. All over a nuclear program that was a deception Saddam had been running to try and deter Iran from striking after the Iran-Iraq War ended. We fell for it

I don't think America can untangle its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from Christian militarism, secular as we sometimes like to think we are

Latest review up on this bit of U.S. Air Force Academy required reading: goodreads.com/review/show/69…

👍🤟🫣 Today, I had a new short story published at Lethal Minds Journal 👀 📖 🙏 Big thanks to the editorial team at Lethal Minds for their guidance and for keeping a lit journal like this going. 🙏 "The Distance" lethalmindsjournal.substack.com/p/lethal-minds…

Another great read from Adrian Bonenberger... 👇

Latest review is UP! goodreads.com/review/show/69…

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J.G.P. MacAdam reflects on the ongoing tensions in the Middle East through the reading of Delphine Minoui's "I'm Writing You From Tehran" The Book Review That Wasn't, by Consequence Forum open.substack.com/pub/consequenc…

3 years, 4 rewrites, and over 50 rejections later, my strange, telling, 10,000-word, multiyear saga of an American firebase out in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan—1st written in July '21 on the eve of the fall of Kabul—is out TODAY! 🥳🙏 a.co/d/1RCi1f5 ELJ Editions