The Painful Privilege: Why Deployed Soldiers Feel Like ‘The Walking Dead’
*Note: This essay was published at War on the Rocks on July 30, 2015. It can also be found online here. My birthday is today, and it hurts. I’m a deployed Army officer, living a half marathon distance from the Demilitarized Zone in Korea and 6,000 miles from home (which may as well read “1,000,000”). Service is…