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Thanks for stopping by. This is a short story entitled America Goes On about redemption and disillusionment of an Iraq veteran in modern America.

My name's LT Nixon and I'm a soon-to-be-going on terminal leave Navy guy who spent some time in Iraq awhile back. I also blog here, here, and here. I first came up with the idea for this short story when I saw a Marine looking down in a smoke pit at Ali Al-Saleem Airbase, Kuwait back in June 2007. It's a logistics hub for military and civilian personnel traveling into and out of Iraq/Afghanistan. You see a lot of people come through the Kuwaiti purgatory, and I was amazed at the amount of stories everyone had. Of course, everybody chats it up in this environment, because there is literally nothing to do until you wait for your trip into the combat zone or back home. I also thought about how many of those I saw that went through the Kuwaiti logistics hub never made it back. I wrote this story a few months ago but just got around to publishing it. Hope you enjoy it and feedback/suggestions are encouraged in the comments section below. Thanks!

Navigate through the chapters here or on the sidebar:

Chapter 1 - Arise
Chapter 2 - Joshua Tree
Chapter 3 - Reflection
Chapter 4 - Las Vegas
Chapter 5 - The Girl
Chapter 6 - Boulder
Chapter 7 - Strange Dreams
Chapter 8 - Memphis
Chapter 9 - Anticipation
Chapter 10 - DC
Chapter 11 - Collapse
Chapter 12 - NYC
Chapter 13 - Kuwait
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America Goes On