It is titled Dear fellow veterans: Tell your war stories, it appears in today’s Washington Post, and was written by Clinton Romesha, a former Army Staff Sergeant who earned (one does not “win”) the Medal of Honor for his efforts defending Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan in 2009, in a battle where 50 US soldiers were able to hold off more than 300 attacking Taliban in a battle in which 8 US Servicemen died.
After the troops were evacuated, the site was destroyed with Hellfire Missiles.
This is piece that is almost impossible to summarize. The best I can do is to offer a few a selections, and a very few comments of my own.