Author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava; former Lieutenant Colonel in the US Marine Corps; Executive Director of Freedom Is Not Free, a nonprofit in San Diego assisting wounded vets and their families, and families of the fallen
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