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The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2021 In 2007, I spent Memorial Day in Fallujah. Although I was on my fifth tour in Iraq, it was the first deployment when I buried friends. I attended more than three dozen memorial services that deployment. I remember the names and faces of the dead. Memorial Day was no longer an abstraction. This year’s Memorial Day carries with it the anticipation that the country might be bringing the 9/11 wars to a conclusion. America’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan is coming to an end. The words that echo in my mind each year on this The post The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2021 In 2007, I spent Memorial Day in Fallujah. Although I was on my fifth tour in Iraq, it was the first deployment when I buried friends. I attended more than three dozen memorial services that deployment. I remember the names and faces of the dead. Memorial Day was no longer an abstraction. This year’s Memorial Day carries with it the anticipation that the country might be bringing the 9/11 wars to a conclusion. America’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan is coming to an end. The words that echo in my mind each year on this
The post The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal appeared first on War on the Rocks.
