A Young Soldier's Warning to America

Five years ago, it never occurred to me that I would be telling my story. After all, I was just another individual with a tortuous journey. But as my campaign team started vetting me for opposition research, they uncovered that I had been in a war at 15. And what began as a cover-all-bases-in-case-of-an-embarrassing-surprise process for them slowly became part of my "story." This was 47 years after the fact, and it was something I had fully left behind me. Or so I thought.