Combat Paper, Poetry Heals, and Afghanistan

Combat Paper, Poetry Heals, and Afghanistan

by | Dec 8, 2019 | Poetry Heals in Action

I deployed to Afghanistan for the entirety of my 23rd year of life. Every solitary day, I wore the dim muddled grey-green combat uniform as I trudged to work at my fuel point in a remote FOB in the Paktika Province. As a young woman, I dreamed of dresses in the depths...