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Veterans-Turned-Poll Workers Defend Democratic Elections Against Threats Foreign and Domestic
When Kate Germano—a retired Marine who served for 20 years, including as the commanding officer of a training battalion at Parris Island, South Carolina—returned home from her stint working as an elections judge in 2020, she looked at her…
War Horse Sues Marine Corps for ‘Black Book’ Tracking Officer Misconduct
The War Horse News has sued the Navy and Marine Corps, alleging that they broke the law by denying requests for a database of public information about officer misconduct.On Friday, The War Horse filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court…
The Joy and Misery of Survival Took Root in My Soul. Neither Has Extinguished.
Even without my helmet and body armor, the district council chamber felt oppressive. The meager window units could not defeat the heat in southern Baghdad, at least not within the fading grandeur of this marble and columned space. I did my…
Congress Urges DoD, VA to Defend Troops and Veterans Against Extremists Who Want to Recruit Them
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs recommends the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs work more actively to identify, prevent, and combat the problem of violent extremism among veterans and military members as they approach the…
A Vision of a Russian Cultural Transformation Comes Full Circle and Shatters
On Oct. 28, 1991, I settled into an hours-long commercial flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Moscow. By year’s end, the iconic Soviet flag would fly over the Kremlin for the final time, silently signaling the collapse of the USSR after…
Holding On When Leaving Feels Like Letting Go
I look up from scrubbing dried yogurt and petrified cereal flakes off my kitchen table and notice it immediately. The persimmon tree that grew oddly off-center in our North Carolina backyard is bare. Yesterday there had been six orange…
Veterans and Reservists Make up More Than 28% of Candidates Who Question 2020 Election Results
More than a quarter of the candidates on the ballot in November who have publicly denied or raised questions or doubts about the legitimacy of the 2020 election have served or are serving in the military, an analysis by The War Horse has…
Two Guys to a Bag, One Bag at a Time. We Each Became Experts in a Macabre Parade.
Whenever I hear the thwack-thwack-thwack of a helicopter, I stop and look up. Nothing too unusual about that, except a shot of adrenaline unfailingly accompanies these sightings. The hair on my arms and neck stands up, and something I can’t…
Feres Helps Military Avoid Accountability for Harm. New Ruling Could Be a Chance for Justice.
On the nine-hour drive from their home in California’s central valley to the Marine Corps’ Camp Pendleton, south of Los Angeles, Peter Vienna and his wife wondered what had happened to their son. They knew only that there had been a…
A Portrait of a Soldier—Inside Those Lines Was the Story of War
A pop-up box appeared on the screen one night in 2006 as I idly surfed the internet. Thirty-nine dollars and 95 cents would send a care package to an American soldier in Iraq. I typed in my credit card number.Weeks later I received a…
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