Chapter 1: The Ghost in the UniformThe dust of the road clung to my boots like the ghosts of the men I had left behind in the burning sands of the Hindu Kush. It was a gritty, relentless reminder of the miles I had traveled and the ten years I had sacrificed to a war that the world was already beginning to airbrush from its collective memory. My army jacket was faded, the once-bright brass buttons now tarnished and salt-stained by a thousand different climates. My duffel bag was light—containing nothing but a few changes of clothes, a handful of...
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