A regular column
Dispatches From the Edge
Lessons from the hardest days.
Veteran · Combat MedicLeadership, family, purpose and resilience, drawn from military service, emergency medicine and ordinary life.
Things They Don’t Put in the Manual
Eighteen and a half years in uniform. Being a father from a distance, surviving a leader who set out to break him, the friendships that outlasted the postings, and the body he put last for two decades.
Read the dispatch →In the Shadow of 25 Years
Published ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11. He was 23, closing down a bar the night before. A first-hand account of the morning the towers fell, and what a quarter of a century has done to the country that watched.
Read the dispatch →Read It, Then Talk About It
Every dispatch has a thread inside the community. Tell Michael what it brought back, or say what you remember.
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