Description: What began as a simple email blog turned into a powerful and truly candid memoir of Timothy Martin's year-long experience in Afghanistan. Written in the same land that holds the memories of our fallen brothers and sisters, Martin undergoes a tra...
Brief description: Since his cadet days at the Citadel, Timothy Martin had wished to spend a part of his life serving his great nation as an American soldier. Two stress fractures in his spine during college crushed any dreams of becoming a healthy war-fighter, so he jumped on the opportunity to become a civilian contractor in Afghanistan supporting the Operation for Enduring Freedom. Writing became the only way he could cope with what he was witnessing in Afghanistan; his memoir recounts this period.