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Some uniforms return folded. Others never return at all.

This isn’t about war. It’s about the weight of love when someone is called away. The way grief hides in fabric. In a mug left untouched. In a voice that forgets how to say goodbye out loud.

It’s about the ones who stay. And what they carry in silence.

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'Everyone makes mistakes,' he said. ‘Nah,’ I said. ‘They don’t. Not really.’

THE YELLOW BIRDS, by Kevin Powers

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'Do a film about a kid, growing up. About the girl he falls in love with and breaks his heart and how he joins the Army after World War Two. Then he starts a family and his first kid is born and it teaches him what it means to value life and to have something to live for and how to care for other people. And then Korea happens and he's sent over there and he's excited and scared and he wonders if he'll be courageous and he's kind of proud and then in the last sixty seconds of the film they put him in boats to go to Inchon and he's shot in the water and drowns in three feet of surf and the movie doesn't even give him a close-up, it just ends. That'd be a war film.

REDEPLOYMENT, by Phil Klay

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On Modern War

For the longest time, I found myself uninterested in the modern wars. I've always been fascinated by the World War II, but what interested me most was trying to understand the complexities that fostered an environment that would let something like that happen, and the resulting repercussions in society.

But when I came upon some books that really elucidated those complexities in terms of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I was hooked. Here's what I've read in the past few months:

Nonfiction

Thank You for Your Service, by David Finkel 

No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Talban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, by Anand Gopal

Fiction

Redeployment, by Phil Klay

The Yellow Birds: A Novel, by Kevin Powers