Col. (Ret.) Nate Slate: Young Heroes
Grief moved at fast forward as young Soldiers bore loss with dignity, proving war’s pain can unite hearts in love and resilience.
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Grief moved at fast forward as young Soldiers bore loss with dignity, proving war’s pain can unite hearts in love and resilience.
We idled through Al Dujahl’s midnight arteries, numb and hollow, while men in the shadows watched us like witnesses at the thin border between heaven and hell.
Fred B. McGee wasn’t chasing glory on that Korean hillside—he was just stubbornly, relentlessly doing his job, one impossible step at a time, until every man he could save was off that mountain alive.
In Ukraine’s war, Elon Musk’s satellites shifted from lifeline to leverage, and that power—once a gift—became a weapon of his choosing.
We thought drone warfare would be the future—turns out, it was the present all along, and we just didn’t recognize the buzz of change until it hovered over the tree line, camera rolling.
With some time to kill, the German offered me a seat in the hotel cafe where a dozen Bundeswehr soldiers were hanging out. They even gave me an espresso.
Extortion 17 wasn’t brought down by some grand conspiracy or hidden failure—it was a tragic, rare hit by enemy fighters who happened to be in the right place at the right time with a lucky shot.
We were fighting a war without a front line, where cruelty was as much a weapon as any rifle, and the enemy’s strength lay in finding the weakest point to strike.
I warned them it was only a matter of time before we were attacked—but nobody listened, and twenty-two people paid the price.
She wasn’t a symbol, or a narrative, or a talking point—she was a dying girl in the mud, and I watched her last pixilated breath.
You don’t have to wear a swastika to be dangerous—and you don’t have to quote Dugin to be part of a war built on empire.
Refreshed by a fleeting journey of the soul across time and space, I found strength in the shared silence between stars, and returned to the desert ready to march again.