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I’m reading Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Living, Lifting and Learning by Dan John. Mr. John is...
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Superb article, very helpful. I wonder why the other experts of this sector...
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Sanjay Gupta. Emotional vampires. Walker Percey. Wow, this post had a litle bit of everything,...
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Great post, Shawn. Always love a good Walker Percy quote : ) Also, thought you’d enjoy this:...
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Mangwel and the Konar River Valley
[Friends, with apologies, a stomach virus has laid the blog low. Here's a re-run of a post that has been a reader favorite. We'll be back on Wednesday!] (more…)
This past week, the New York Times ran the op-ed “The Land of 10,000 Wars” by Ganesh Sitaraman. Hard to resist the urge to post the entire op-ed here. Check it out if you haven’t read it already.
Tribal elders tell US Special Forces about their "muj days," fighting the Russians
A week ago I ran a post about two young Army captains—Jim Gant and Michael Harrison—who served in the same valley in Konar province, Afghanistan. Their service was six years apart, yet the two were linked by their bonds with a tribal chief named Noorafzhal and by a gift of honor—a shotgun that Capt. Gant and his Special Forces ODA 316 had presented to the tribal elder in August 2003. Just three weeks ago, June 2009, Noorafzhal was still showing that gun off—this time to Capt. Harrison. (more…)
