12 years of hard lessons on Iraq
I spent a year in Iraq. As a captain in the Army and as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I served my tour in Baghdad from August 2005 to August 2006. It was a complicated and difficult year, but the opportunity to serve my country in combat left an indelible imprint on my soul. While […]Chris Spatola writes for The Hill:
I spent a year in Iraq. As a captain in the Army and as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I served my tour in Baghdad from August 2005 to August 2006. It was a complicated and difficult year, but the opportunity to serve my country in combat left an indelible imprint on my soul. While I am no longer an Army officer, I continue to follow and digest any news that I can about what is happening in that area of the world. I don't watch and read because I support or don't support our country’s presence there, necessarily. It's more personal than that. Selfishly, I just want to believe that the work we did meant something.
