Before we get to the news: This is the last “War Notes” until January 6th, 2025. Rachel and I will be with our families to close the year out. We hope you get to spend the holidays with people ...

By then I had amassed several thousand pages of notes, 50 rolls of films, and 48 hours of audio. The thought of leaving these men, the intensity of war, made me depressed. I remember Sgt.