Jacob Siegel

Daily Beast

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Reporter and Editor at the Daily Beast and an Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan; author and editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, the first anthology of fiction written by Iraq and Afghanistan vets

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