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  • When former US Navy Intelligence Officer Andrew McCormick spent the holiday season in Kandahar in 2013, attempts at holiday cheer were everywhere. But few were more out-of-touch than the generic care packages sent from civilians who knew nothing about him — or the war he was fighting.  Part of our series of monologues in partnership[...]
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  • One night In 1968, Ed Meagher was finishing his last shift at Clark Airways, which included authenticating and repeating messages for the nuclear-armed B-52 fleet in Southeast Asia.  Then his phone lines started dinging, with signal after signal — and he couldn’t figure out why none were a match.  This monologue is the second in[...]
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Former members of the now defunct security forces of the toppled Afghan Republic in Pitigal, a side valley of the remote district of Kamdesh in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan. While they say they feel safe, they lament that they have no opportunity to make a living and were forced to return to their remote ancestral homes. (Franz J. Marty, 18th of May 2022)

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Former members of the now defunct security forces of the toppled Afghan Republic in Pitigal, a side valley of the remote district of Kamdesh in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan. While they say they feel safe, they lament that they have no opportunity to make a living and were forced to return to their remote ancestral homes. (Franz J. Marty, 18th of May 2022)

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