It’s been eight years since America sent warriors to Afghanistan, and soon it will be eight years since men and women in our all-volunteer military have served in Iraq — some of them for two, three or four tours of duty.
The price those men and women have paid is unimaginably high — the wounds that [...]

Bobby’s War, originally uploaded by WBUR.
“[The decision to invade Iraq] was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions—or bury the results.”
– Ret. Lt. General Gregory Newbold, Marine Corps
“You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.”
– Kaiser Wilhelm [...]