The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier -- Steven Moore, Paperback Social Security draining--and entirely unforgettable

draining--and entirely unforgettable

But nothing with fairies is ever simple

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The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier -- Steven Moore, Paperback Social Security draining--and entirely unforgettableThe war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that