Poetic but pickled. Those were the words that kept coming to mind as I read the bestselling novel The Yellow Birds by Iraq veteran Kevin Powers. Awarded the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award…
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As a general rule, if I liked a book and it is later turned into a movie, I don’t watch the movie. Because, chances are, the movie isn’t going to be…
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When I deployed to Afghanistan in 2006, I had about a week or so of training, in which I was the only individual going to an actual war zone (everyone else…
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When I mentioned that I was reviewing military related films and documentaries for this week’s blog posts, my husband suggested I should watch one that he’d recently seen on HBO. He…