Farewell, Sgt. Denny

I first met the boys of Charlie Company, 1/121 Infantry, in December 2005. I was an embedded reporter, a lost soul among the rough and tumble men of the Georgia Army National Guard. What did I know about the military, about the U.S. Army? Very little. I arrived with trepidation in my heart. But the …

Chaplain Turner's War

Chaplain Darren Turner counsels a soldier at a combat outpost in Arab Jabour, March, 2008. Photo by Curtis Compton/AJC Four years ago, I spent time with an Army chaplain in Iraq because I wanted to write about how war affected American soldiers. His name is Darren Turner. He had only been a chaplain for a …

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