This was my first real publishing success. The USO’s magazine, On Patrol, published one of the first things I had written about my tour in Afghanistan.

Find it online here: http://www.uso.org/stories/236-the-little-men-of-afghanistan

Unfortunately, the wonderful pictures that came with the article seem to be currently broken on their website. I’ve written their webmaster about that.

Here’s what it looked like in print: