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On Thursday evening, CNN's "The Sixties" aired its segment on the Vietnam War. In real time in Washington, D.C., Vietnam War ...

These three photos come from The Atlantic magazine's series of photo essays commemorating the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasio...

I'm always a bit dubious when a new novel is compared to Catch-22 or M*A*S*H or is labeled "definitive." However, I am alw...

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man di...

This is not right. From an AP wire service story: So far this year the number of suicides in the military has surged beyond expectation...

From Cheyenne resident and USAF veteran Ken McCauley, a Wyoming delegate at the DNC: Pete Laybourn [former member of the Cheyenne city c...

Lance Corporal Nicholas G. Ciccone by Michael D. Fay, a portrait drawn during their duty in Afghanistan. Ciccone committed suicide in 2...

The film that accompanies Nicholas D. Kristof's New York Times story makes me incredibly sad -- and pisses me off. Why isn't more...

Brian Turner Here's some exciting news. The Wyoming Arts Council announced yesterday that soldier-poet Brian Turner will serve as ju...

I read Brian Turner’s  first poetry book, “Here, Bullet,” when it came out in 2005 from Alice James Books. Amazing poems from a witness to...

Soldiers wave to the last U.S. military convoy to leave Iraq as it crosses the Kuwaiti border. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images One of the...

Here's a sobering statistic from a story in the Fort Collins Coloradoan : The Veterans's Administration Regional Medical Center in ...

Nancy Sindelar, Veterans for Peace, Laramie It may be a slight exaggeration to say that there would be no peace movement in Laramie witho...

My fellow Rocky Mountain prog-blogger Rob Kailey writes about Rep. Dennis Rehberg's "veteran problem" in an Aug. 20 post on ...

I wish I could say that I look on this photo with nostalgia. But it's more like horror.

From GOOD magazine : Design Boom recently featured this simple but incredibly powerful installation by Brooklyn-based artist Sebastian Err...

I read Here, Bullet from Iraq War vet Brian Turner when it first came out. He has a new book and I will buy and read that too. The Poet...

Disturbing news from a USA Today story as reported in  The (Pakistan) Nation on the Web : The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are taking a to...

Article from the Morris Knudsen newsletter about the company's 1950s Afghanistan project Just spent the last hour reading Jim White...

I attended the Philip Gourevitch talk this evening at the Laramie County Public Library in Cheyenne. He writes about what happens when human...