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Between Boredom and Terror: One US Soldier’s Letters from Afghanistan

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From the frontlines of America’s war in Afghanistan a Yale graduate turned Army warrior reflected on his experience in letters home. Now he’s put those letters together and they reveal a man comforted by the trivial and questioning why he is there.

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Damon Winter/The New York Times

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