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Taliban on Afghan
Afghanistan is a country with a beautiful past and an amazing future is it the same now? After many years of fighting with terrorism, the country now seems to have given up. Afghan forces are surrendering en masse as the Taliban capture city after city at a staggering rate, raising concerns of a government collapse and leaving citizens to contend with the Taliban's harsh and violent demands. Afghan civilians in northern provinces who spoke to more than a dozen people - some trapped behind Taliban lines, others displaced to displacement camps - already report closed girls' schools, poor families forced to cook food for ravenous fighters, and young men pressured into joining the militant ranks. New arrivals to villagers have threatened violence to several people.
By Shivam Jha4 years ago in Serve
Life Imitating Art: From ‘The Killing Fields’ to Afghanistan
There’s an oddly prescient moment, early in the remarkable, harrowing 1984 film The Killing Fields, about journalists working in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge takeover, where a cynical war photographer for the New York Times, played by John Malkovich, looks doubtfully at the occupying Khmer Rouge guerrillas, many of them 14- and 15-year-old conscripts, some of them with yellow peace flowers sticking out from the barrels of their AK-47 assault rifles, and remarks to Times war correspondent Sydney Schanberg, played by Sam Waterston: “I wonder if these guys are for real.”
By Hamish Alexander4 years ago in Serve
Parasites. Politicians. Soldiers. Sacrifice
My father was a soldier. Vietnam. He never talked about it much; most soldiers don’t, I’ve learned. Especially those who saw the worst of humanity and/or those who may have had to bloody their hands in the barbarity of that warfare.
By Josh Walker Beavers4 years ago in Serve
The Controversial Burn Pit Lawsuits: What Veterans Need to Know
Legislators on Capitol Hill in March 2021 planned to implement what could be the most ardent attempt to treat US war veterans who were poisoned by toxic fumes during their overseas deployments.
By Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD4 years ago in Serve
Friend Or Foe
It had only been about three hours, but to Herman, it felt like a lifetime. The pungent aroma of the mildew-laden boards beneath him made him restless and forced him to check his rifle over once more to ensure it was ready. Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, his body’s insistence that the October air was not as cold as his visible breath led on. He had been given orders to find all officers and take them out as quickly as possible. Colonel Wilck had been strong in his assurances that the enemy advance would break without officer leadership. Herman, however, knew better; he didn’t make Master Sergeant in three years without knowing the enemy. But he took his place in the bell tower, orders in hand, and waited.
By Anthony Stauffer4 years ago in Serve
Miracle at Twenty thousand Feet
STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: Staff Sgt. Jack Flynn, top turret gunner; Sgt. Douglas Aldrich, waist gunner; Sgt. Charles Agnatovich, ball turret gunner; Sgt. Anthony DeMarco, radio operator; Sgt. John Lafferty, waist gunner; Sgt. Ralph Corning, tail gunner.
By Richard Frohm4 years ago in Serve
