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Augustine in the Dust

From the January 2013 Print Edition

Sergeant Dwayne Miller’s breath came quick and his jaw clenched as he began relating a story to me at a combat outpost in northern Helmand Province, Afghanistan. We sat in the moon dust on camp chairs that some folks from my hometown had sent for the Fourth of July and which I had pushed up by . . . . Continue Reading »