LEAVING AFGHANISTAN BEHIND: THE LONGEST WAR IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY IS NOW OVER. AS THESE SIX EYEWITNESS PERSPECTIVES ATTEST-A COMMANDING GENERAL. A SNIPER, AN INTERPRETER, AND OTHERS-ALTHOUGH THE FIGHTING IS DONE, THE BATTLE OVER ITS MEMORY IS JUST BEGINNING

FEW WARS GET CLEAN ENDS. Some here in America may want that small grace for Afghanistan as surely as some there deserve it, but in this way, war's like life. [...]