Opinion

Since 9/11, about 7,057 service members have died in military operations. In the same time period, an estimated 30,177 service members and veterans have died by suicide.

Resignation won’t atone for lives lost, or the debacle that American involvement in Afghanistan became, but it would at least demonstrate an understanding of professional ethics.

The routine of getting the award has become so perfunctory that it's essentially meaningless. 

“No one could’ve predicted how this unfolded. The entire situation was surreal.”

What it was like checking into a new unit the day before the world changed.

Any prognosis of Washington’s misadventure in Afghanistan must account for three critical errors in judgment, each of which proved to be a major inflection point in the conflict.

Anyone who’d spent five minutes in Afghanistan in the last 20 years knew it was a failed state waiting to happen.

Our politicians threw us into another war with no end state, no exit strategy, and no purpose. 

An excerpt from 'Reign of Terror' by Spencer Ackerman.

If there is such a thing as literary justice, you will eventually find Tellessen’s truth shelved alongside Sledge and Leckie and O’Brien.

Forever war keeps on simmering, and it could all too easily boil again.

There is an unspoken caste system among veterans.

The first rule they teach is “don’t get caught.”

Service members are seen as an abstract concept by civilians, but they don't have to be.

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“We’re ending America’s longest war."

It’s time to reform the zero-tolerance policy for marijuana use in the military.

"Gays lived deeply closeted lives, and I didn’t know a single gay person."

For at least five hours, I was out of body. Let me explain...

“At least he could have his guys with him when he dies,” I said.

"Don’t be ashamed to have a good time this Memorial Day — that’s part of the gift that’s been bestowed to you"

"Like many military veterans, Memorial Day is not abstract to me. It is personal; a moment when we remember our friends."

“My mind won’t let go,” writes a Marine veteran of Afghanistan. “The farther I get from those days, the heavier my guilt.”

We need more patriotic Americans willing to serve in our armed forces — and fewer ignorant politicians making their job harder.

“His story is so much the story of Afghanistan: youth destroyed violently while fighting for a better home."