Writing
Dec 6, 2025
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4 min read
He got twenty-one years. I've spent twenty-four refusing to let him disappear.
Nov 17, 2025
5 min read
They trained me to gather intelligence. That night, I learned to fight.
Nov 11, 2025
2 min read
Honoring all who served - the mechanics and medics, the clerks and cooks, the living and the dead. Service doesn't require heroics, just commitment.
Sep 7, 2025
The calendar marks days, but healing requires choice. In the space time creates, we learn to build ourselves anew.
Sep 1, 2025
The weight of what happened in Afghanistan lives in the stories I can't tell. Twenty years later, I'm learning that some truths are too heavy for words, too sacred for anything but silence.
Aug 25, 2025
There are words you write when you think you're dying, stained with the dirt and blood of the moment you thought was your last. Sometimes you live to frame them.
Jul 28, 2025
13 min read
The Kid from Queens
Jul 14, 2025
6 min read
Where silence heals instead of threatens, and peace becomes possible again.
Jul 7, 2025
How I learned to live with the weight of taking a life at knife-point. Twenty-three years later, the healing continues.
Jun 26, 2025
The bonds forged in combat resist translation to civilian life, leaving veterans caught between two worlds that speak different languages of connection. Even with therapy and genuine effort to open up, some experiences remain too profound and terrible to bridge the gap between those who were there and those who cannot imagine.
Feb 11, 2025
3 min read
Through the wreckage of loss and war emerges a harder wisdom - the understanding that some truths, once learned, become permanent passengers on life's journey.
Feb 5, 2025
A story about brotherhood, late night phone calls, and the distance we'll go to make sure we don't lose another one.
Feb 2, 2025
When Death comes knocking in the quiet hours, we share bourbon and memories of faraway mountains. Till another midnight, till another conversation, till we meet again in Valhalla's halls.
Jan 28, 2025
Between darkness and dawn lies a truth about transformation - that we are not just what breaks us, but what we become in the breaking.
Jan 6, 2025
Finding healing through words on a page, from battlefield memories to poetic reflection. A raw and honest journey through war stories, personal poems, and the therapeutic power of putting pen to paper.
