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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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I'm not sure we knew what to make of it — when something is almost science fiction gone horribly wrong, or so surreal, you almost don't know how to react. But my parents picked me up and we went home. And I remember that my dad got my mom, my sister, and myself together in the living room and he turned off all the lights in the house and in a hush, hush tone, he said he was afraid of backlash.

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I’m not sure we knew what to make of it — when something is almost science fiction gone horribly wrong, or so surreal, you almost don’t know how to react. But my parents picked me up and we went home. And I remember that my dad got my mom, my sister, and myself together in the living room and he turned off all the lights in the house and in a hush, hush tone, he said he was afraid of backlash.

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