Put in the effort, put in the time and research, and "purpose" can be found back here.

A couple weeks back I grabbed lunch with an ex-soldier and friend I served with in Iraq. Lunch turned into beers, beers turned into more beers — you know the deal. We talked old war stories, now dusted over with eight years of nostalgia. We talked who is still in, who has gotten out, who has gotten out because they wanted to, and who has gotten out for, um, other reasons. Two vets, shooting the breeze like they were still young guns, a story and image old as time.

We talked about the guys doing well. We talked about the guys doing not so well. We talked about the guys no longer here.

We talked about this, we talked about that. After we talked about what we didn’t miss about the Army, we of course talked... Read More