Tag: Iraq War

Broken Glass and the Path to a Career in Education

In 2003, while deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom, I went on various convoys and used to see many children in small towns and neighborhoods running around…

Witnessing the Effects of Near-History in Iraq

I was a newspaper reporter covering the War in Iraq in the late 2000s. My assignment was exciting, but often lonely. I bounced from town to town, usually…