Tag: military service
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Leaking Wings
For some people everyday is memorial DayNever been about a bbq for us anywaysWhen I was a teen slaying was a thingNot necessarily some kind of dreamMore like an unfixed transitory sceneMade of what’s lost between the beamsI still fly despite my leaking wingsBegin again over the blood meridian Mic-G
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Two Wars, One Generation: Why Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Deserve Proper Recognition
For more than twenty years, American service members fought across two completely different battlefields: Afghanistan and Iraq. A lot of us — myself included — served in both. But the way our awards are structured, you’d think those deployments were all part of one single conflict. Anyone who actually fought in them knows that’s not…
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