Vietnam, Afghanistan; Saigon, Kabul
As the catastrophe in Afghanistan unfolds and we await reports of beheadings and the brutalization of women, I think of the veteran I met at the used bookstore in Tontitown who lost both legs to a mine in that country. I think of Luke, a former Army Ranger with ties to Siloam Springs, who lost friends in an ambush there. And I remember what Siloam Springs resident and Afghanistan veteran Robert Staats told me more than a year ago about the Afghan soldiers U.S. forces were training: "Some of them joined the military to get fed, fattened up. Weapons training. They would go AWOL, join back u...
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