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Lethal Minds Op Ed: Suicide (opens the original)
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The Army unit I’m co-located with has tables set up in the foyer with the following message: “Please write down an inspirational message for Suicide Prevention Month. Your encouragement can offer hope.”The messages are really great, and even the CG wrote one. Here are a few:“Even on the darkest days, there is tomorrow waiting for you with new hope. Stay.”“Your story isn’t over.”“You have a purpose! Never give up & you are never alone.” —SSG Cabrera“Stay connected!” —MG BuzzaSome might think this
Book Excerpt: Refusal to Obey: A Novel of the Massacre at Sand Creek by J. Aaron Courts (opens the original)
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The enemy gets a say.That’s what Silas told us after Valverde. And he was right.The hardened Texas cavalrymen afforded the Union lines little respect in the first real engagement, and even less, if any, in the fight that was to come. Despite his plans, Canby trotted cautiously up from Fort Craig—too cautiously—all the while, Sibley’s Rebels were outpacing our Yanks. But we’d ridden with Kit’s regiment to Fort Union in advance of them both. And though reinforcements arrived from Denver, they were
12 Questions with a Writer: J. Aaron Courts (opens the original)
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1. Who are you, what have you written, and why? My name is Aaron Courts. I’m an author and screenwriter, but I do enjoy writing poetry and creative non-fiction for The Sword & Pen. I’m also a Native Texan, retired U. S. Marine, husband to a Marine herself, and father. I dig woodworking, the outdoors, and good bourbon. My wife and I live with our two youngest and a pair of dogs, Bear and Bor, just outside of San Antonio, Texas. Refusal to Obey: A Novel of the Massacre at Sand Creek is my debut no
Book Excerpt: Bury My Heart in Baghdad by Colonel Byron Owen (opens the original)
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Chapter 18: Luck of the IrishThe sun was low when the convoy rolled through the Southern gate of Baghdad International Airport. Faded concrete barriers lined both sides of the road, marked with old unit logos and graffiti. Coils of rusting concertina wire sagged above the HESCO barriers. The lead Humvee slowed at the checkpoint, but the guards waved them through without checking IDs. No questions. Just another convoy returning from somewhere bad.The road curved east along the perimeter road. Row
Lethal Minds Volume 50 (opens the original)
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Letter from the EditorBy the time you read this, it’ll be a day late and a dollar short, which feels appropriate given that it’s an apt description of much of the Afghan war, and certainly the Kabul airport evacuation, which ended five years ago today as I write this.Ironically, some of the things of which I am most proud from my decades as a Marine came amidst the chaos at Kabul International Airport. I got to help save lives. I had moments when, from my home in North Carolina, I better underst
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