No point in denying who and what we are. - Salvatore Giunta

For my wife, Jennifer, and our daughter, Lillian.

People die, and sometimes there's not a damn thing you can do about it. But that doesn't make it any easier to accept.

That was the primary conundrum when fighting in the Korengal Valley: distinguishing between the real enemy and the imagined enemy; between fighters and people who were aiding and abetting. It made a difficult war nearly impossible, and an ugly war almost indescribably brutal.